Marshall,
You are correct that using MS to accomplish this may get expensive quickly, but I never mentioned using MS. Thin clients can be set up using RHL -- take a look at http://www.europe.redhat.com/documentation/HOWTO/Thinclient-HOWTO.php3
Assuming that you have persons with Unix or Linux skills available at your facility (to avoid re-training), the cost of the RHL option will prove itself a tiny fraction of using MS.
You can run WINE (http://www.winehq.com/about/) on top of RHL for those people who absolutely need an MS Windos application.
I'll gladly tell you more if you are interested, but please contact me directly. I believe that we are WAY off the topic of this list serve.
-Jake
-----Original Message-----
From: Marshall E. Fryman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 5:56 PM
To: WEDI SNIP Privacy Workgroup List
Subject: RE: Privacy issues
Thin client is a very expensive solution to this problem. By the time you
deploy all the various licenses that Microsoft requires and purchase a
server capable of running the clients, you would be talking about several
thousand dollars as a minimum. You would also be relying on the inherent
logging system of MS to make this work. Their logging system appears to be
very poor when dealing with a significant amount of logged traffic.
I was hoping for a background service application that would monitor file
access activity and record it in a DB that would then have various report
capabilities. If there isn't one readily available, we can certainly
develop one, I was just hoping that someone had already discovered an easy
means of logging access to files that are outside the normal data set of
the record keeping systems but still needed to maintain HIPAA compliance.
m
At 05:11 PM 10/24/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>Marshall,
>
>Did you consider deployment of thin clients? Your logs would then id all
>access.
>
>Jake Mazur
>GovConnect
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>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Marshall E. Fryman
>[<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 3:24 PM
>To: WEDI SNIP Privacy Workgroup List
>Subject: RE: Privacy issues
>
>---
>Thanks to everyone who responded to my original question (quoted below.) My
>reason for asking is that I represent a niche software manufacturer for
>health care and am looking to develop a recommendation for our accounts in
>regards to "best practices." We are already implementing tracking of
>information that is stored in our database regarding who entered the
>information, last modified it, etc. There will be full temporal access to
>the history of the records so you can easily move backward and (if starting
>from an earlier period) forward in time in relationship to a given record.
>
>The problem that I have found to be consistent across all of our accounts
>is that they frequently have confidential information stored in letters,
>spreadsheets, etc. that they have developed to do some specific task.
>Unfortunately, the client rarely informs us of these alternative items and
>they are not using our software which will be able to protect and audit
>access to the data. One of the solutions that will correct unauthorized
>access to the data is to recommend the deployment of Windows NT machines.
>Is anyone aware of an audit system that will identify access to word
>processor / spreadsheet / other documents with the same temporal
>information and could hopefully be written into a database? Windows 2000
>domains support audit policies that would appear to do this; however, our
>experience suggests that this system is very poor at tracking anything over
>a long period of time.
>
>Thanks,
>Marshall
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