One question I have is to whether or not your hospital is ACoS accredited. If
so, do you do all of your administrative functions (committees, conferences etc)
at your hospital, but do all of your abstracting at home?




"redhatter1936" <nancic@...> wrote:

> Hello Everyone,
>nbsp;nbsp; Just joined the group and saw redboots5674's cry for help.nbsp; I'm
>currently working full time, half of which is from home.nbsp; Two others
>in the Registry are also doing so.nbsp; We're able to do complete
>abstracts as the hospital has allowed us to be on-line with
>everything we need, including complete patient records.nbsp; Was at NCRA
>in Pittsburg, but found the panel that discussed this topic wasn't
>very helpful.nbsp; When the moderator asked for questions/responses, I
>did speak about our experience here and was surprised at the many
>questions I received.nbsp; Concerns over HIPPA were, of course, major.
>Our Information Sysytems department supports all the software except
>our MRS software, but was willing to work with us the one time we had
>an issue with access.nbsp; They provide the firewalls and passwords to
>cover the hospital systems and I personally had an extra password
>added to my laptop so it can't be used inadvertantly by anyone else.
>The security developed by IS covers HIPPA requirements and as
>employees of the hospital, we are personally covered.nbsp;
>nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; I don't know what questions anyone has, so please feel free to
e-
>mail me.nbsp; I would be happy to share what I can as I feel this is
>really the future for a lot of us.
>
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