No Maintenance Required

I spent the last week spinning my wheels. That is not entirely true, but it did feel that way. You see, we decided that we should switch our email server from the Microsoft Exchange server Seth was having to take time to maintain to Google’s business mail system. It appears that we will be able to [...]

Get Out of HIPAA Jail Free

Consider a couple of nightmares that might easily come true: 1. Your laptop, with a variety of documents and files containing confidential, protected health information on its hard drive, is stolen from your car, hotel, or disappears while you are traveling. 2. Your office is burglarized and all the desktop computers, as well as a [...]

Integrating Behavioral Health and Primary Care

The September 29, 2009 edition of NJAMHA Newswire reports on a trend appearing strongly in New Jersey and in many other states: attempts to provide primary care treatment at the behavioral health setting or alternatively, to integrate behavioral health treatment into the primary care setting. In fact, the National Council, the major membership organization of community behavioral health care providers, has [...]

Clean Sweep, Fresh Start

I have never been quite sure why, but Fall has always felt like the beginning of the year to me. Perhaps its because I was born in September. Or maybe it has to do with the start of the new school year. My Jewish family and friends would say that it is the beginning of [...]