NOVEMBER 2004
- Volume 28 - No. 10 |
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| (Below) From left, Medical Staff President Bruce Adornato, Chief of Staff Lawrence Shuer, and Medical School Dean Philip Pizzo | |
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THOSE GLASSES, KEEP THE SHRIMP- THE LINX Restaurant in Stanford's Clark Center, hosted some 140 physicians and guests for the Oct. 26 Semi-Annual Medical Staff Meeting. The new setting drew praise for its relaxed, collegial environment - and the opportunity to eat good food and drink during the business meeting. The featured speaker was Leonard Shlain, above, at left, with faculty oncology leaders Richard Hoppe, center, and Saul Rosenberg. Shlain, chair of laparoscopic surgery at California Pacific Medical Center, discussed his best selling book, Sex Time and Power: How Women's Sexuality Shaped Human Evolution [Viking Books, 2003, ISBN: 0670032336] In a lively illustrated talk, Shlain described how human intelligence influenced both culture and human evolution, noting, for example, that women unlike other mammals can cognitively choose partners and decide when and if to produce offspring. |
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PHOTOS: John Leschofs / Stanford Visual Arts Services
Physicians need short course to meet HIPAA security requirements
All faculty and community members of the medical staff who wish electronic access to SHC patient information or who wish to communicate patient information electronically to SHC must complete a brief federally mandated training course.
The course, while required for physicians, is expected to provide useful information about how to keep communications confidential and even reduce or eliminate viruses and SPAM, said Joseph Hopkins, associate chief of staff.
The course is intended to meet HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996) security requirements that become effective April 21, 2005. These requirements supplement earlier HIPAA privacy requirements, which mandated that physicians complete a training module on how and to whom protected health information is disclosed.
The less proscriptive security rule covers protected
health information that is normally held or transmitted electronically
via all types of computers, PDAs, computer networks, and any computer
storage devices, such as tapes, disks, CD's, USB drives, or similar devices.
(see story)
