So my Mom has gone crazy. Raz on the March!

[Razgovory]

It's not like she's had a good employment record.  Her last two jobs she was fired from because as she said "everyone else was jealous because she was so smart", She also became a real estate agent (which also require very expensive schooling and testing, something my dad paid for), which she bombed at.  Didn't sell a single house.  And this was back in the late 1990's when there was a real estate boom.

[Grey Fox]

I'm starting to think that MommyRaz is just bored.

[MadImmortalMan]

She perceives Illinois as a bastion of liberal enlightenment, where apparently she'll quickly get a Union job and through that become an elected official again. 

Medical billers, like transcriptionists, often work from home for very low wages, and I'd be surprised if they are organized.  Then again, much of that work is going to India so maybe they ARE organized, and that's why the work is being outsourced overseas.

Not necessarily. There are plenty of drones needed to run those EMR systems because doctors for some reason can't wrap their heads around them. Just look at the NHS's epic failure to modernize in IT. The docs just couldn't hack it. I've also noticed that doctors in general, while usually extremely bright people, become retards when behind the wheel.

[DontSayBanana]

Ouch.  While Raz may not be handling this supremely well, I'm starting to wonder which is the bigger spoiled brat.  No offense, Raz.

[Darth Wagtaros]

Yeah well, had she handled this better she would still be in the right to make her own way in the world. She is just being a jerk about it.

[Razgovory]

Oh, nobody is denying the right.

[Valmy]

Medical billers, like transcriptionists, often work from home for very low wages, and I'd be surprised if they are organized.  Then again, much of that work is going to India so maybe they ARE organized, and that's why the work is being outsourced overseas.

India?  Can they do that and stay HIPAA-compliant?

[Caliga]

Why wouldn't they be able to, as long as they follow HIPAA regulations?  Even if you're not subject to HIPAA in your local area you could abide by the regulations if your client required it.

[Neil]

(And I'm sorry, but you're never too old to dream, Raz.)

Yes, but you can very easily be old enough to know better.

[Valmy]

Why wouldn't they be able to, as long as they follow HIPAA regulations?  Even if you're not subject to HIPAA in your local area you could abide by the regulations if your client required it.

Well India has poor privacy protection laws so it would be difficult to protect confidential medical data.  I thought this was one of the big reasons fields associated with medicine are gradually becoming the best jobs around: because they are risky to outsource.  But there is big money to be saved here so I guess people will find a way.

[Razgovory]

On, the plus side, this has made me more conservative.  At this rate I'll support Gov Walker's crackdown on unions soon.

[Caliga]

I sometimes confuse HIPAA with FERPA because in the past I had to deal with FERPA as well, but IIRC there has never been a successful prosecution due to a HIPAA violation, or at least there hadn't been as of a few years back.

[Eddie Teach]

On, the plus side, this has made me more conservative.

That's not a plus. Moderate Raz would presumably be less colorful on the forum than MoveOn Raz. 

[Razgovory]

I've always been fairly moderate.

[Darth Wagtaros]

I sometimes confuse HIPAA with FERPA because in the past I had to deal with FERPA as well, but IIRC there has never been a successful prosecution due to a HIPAA violation, or at least there hadn't been as of a few years back.

That is changing.  Maybe not prosecution but grants have been withdrawn, and the feds have demanded that grant money given on projects that violated HIPAA regulations be paid back.