“Web site operations are an integral part of an agency’s program. Managing web records properly is essential to effective web site operations, especially the mitigation of the risks an agency faces by using the web to carry out agency business. This guidance will assist agency officials in this regard, including agency program staff, webmasters, IT… Continue Reading
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Category Archives: E-Records
Digital Medical Records Offer Benefits and Risks
From Business Week, Between You, The Doctor, And The PC – “More physicians and hospitals are putting their medical records online.” As the digitization of health care records steadily increases, there are consequences for physicians and patients alike. As diagnositic data and patient health records are made available online via hospital intranets, they are vulnerable… Continue Reading
Free Yahoo! Desktop Search Beta
Yahoo! Desktop Search joins the party alongside similar software recently released by Google, Ask Jeeves, and Microsoft. Details about the features of Yahoo Desktop search are discussed in this FAQ, and PC Magazine weighs in with a positive review, as does Chris Sherman at Search Engine Watch. Continue Reading
Recommendations For Recently Launched Law-Related Websites
Robert J. Ambrogi highlights 13 websites, launched this past year, that merit your review, including an online legal bookstore, an e-discovery resource, a new meta-search engine, and a collection of historical documents on the civil rights movement. Continue Reading
Proposed E-Discovery Rules Generate Controversy and Merit Scrutiny
This Business Week article discusses the potential consequences of new rules on electronic discovery and records retention under consideration by the Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure of the Judicial Conference of the United States. These rules will have a significant impact on corporations in every sector. Particularly controversial is the proposed “safe harbor”… Continue Reading
Massachusetts Pioneers E-Health Records Initiative
Massachusetts e-Health Collaborative MeHC Incorporated 2004 (11 pages, PDF); “The Mission of the Collaborative is to improve the safety, cost effectiveness, and quality of health care in Massachusetts through the promotion of widespread implementation and use of electronic clinical information systems, including electronic medical records, medical decision support, and clinical data exchange capabilities.” See also… Continue Reading
Employee Productivity Undermined by Tech Scrutiny According to New Report
A new white paper by Dr. Carsten Sørensen of the London School of Economics (in conjunction with Microsoft UK), titled The Future Role of Trust in Work – The Key Success Factor for Mobile Productivity. According to InfoWorld, the report indicates “that managers are using technologies such as e-mail, mobile phones, and SMS (Short Messaging… Continue Reading
Plans Take Shape for E-Health Records
From the New York Times, this article reviews the challenges involved in work underway by NIH, industry and providers to coordinate and implement a digital health network. Continue Reading
A Practical Guide to E-Discovery
Eight Simple Steps for Doing Effective E-Discovery, By Dennis Kennedy and George Socha, November 2004. Continue Reading
Electronic Access to Criminal Case Files
“Beginning November 1, 2004, all criminal case file documents available to the public at a courthouse also will be available remotely through the court’s electronic access system.” [Link] Continue Reading
Commentary on E-Health Records
Trusting Your Health History to the Web – Digitized medical records can help save lives. But are they secure enough? Continue Reading
Proposed Rule to Dispose of Gov’t E-mail Without Paper Trail
Proposed rule, National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), Federal Register, November 3, 2004: “As part of NARA’s Records Management Initiatives to redesign Federal records management, NARA has determined that Federal agencies should be allowed to dispose of short-term temporary electronic mail (e-mail) record (e.g., those with a retention period of 90, 120, or 180 days),… Continue Reading
