HIPAA, ADA, General HR Security A Concern: Try Biometric Access

Or at least check with Brevard County to see how it is working for them. They are one of the first in the country according to this article in InformationWeek. The particular technology being used, bioLock, uses fingerprints to control access to sensitive documents.

While the Business View Is That HIPAA May Be Too Much

Privacy groups suing to rescind the recently effective rules, feel they don't go far enough. Business Insurance caught the filing of a suit in a federal district court in Philadelphia over the rules which were effective earlier this week.

HIPAA, Now More Than Just Talk

After what seems an interminable amount of time to build up to it, the effective date of HIPAA has arrived. The Society for Human Resource Management has put together a list of helpful links. The long awaited arrival of this event was duly noted by a number of bloggers including Naked Ownership, Ernie the Attorney, and the University Attorney. Whether this will turn out to be a true Pandora's box, or just a false alarm as to the havoc it could cause, will only be told as we experience it.