On the encouraging side, however, he did make this comment, recognizing
the need for records management:

Venable said Blue Cross is taking steps toward automating tiered storage
using IBM Content Manager, "But what I really want is a
content-addressable file system, something that would automatically
apply a storage policy as soon as I name a file, and then automatically
migrate it through tiers of storage throughout its lifecycle." 

Greg Schildmeyer, CRM

-----Original Message-----
From: Records Management Program [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of Larry Medina
Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 9:57 AM
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Subject: RAINdrip: Complying with HIPAA is difficult! (DUH!!!)

<clip> I started talking to people last year about what's happening in
the EMR/EHR arena and saying RIM Professionals and ARMA needs to get
involved because it's like a snowball rolling downhill and gaining speed
and size, and it's unchecked... but no one wants to hear it.  Now, here
we are in the first wek of 2006 and it appears it's getting worse much
faster than it's getting better.

I read articles like this:

http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid5_gci115
5487,00.html

and it makes me proud to be a RIM Professional and wonder again why it
is I should be trying to work with IT to increase their knowledge and
ability to meet the needs of developing compliant systems when they make
comments like
this: <clip>

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