Local Encryption ... Why Not?
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@scottalanmiller said:
I know that just last year Baylor hospital system was using HIPAA violations to pull medical records to use in attempts to extort money from family members of patients in Texas.
I mean, that is the reasoning behind it.
Or to prevent a corporation from mining the patient data for profit.
The joke it has evolved into is ridiculous.
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@BRRABill said:
@scottalanmiller said:
I know that just last year Baylor hospital system was using HIPAA violations to pull medical records to use in attempts to extort money from family members of patients in Texas.
I mean, that is the reasoning behind it.
Or to prevent a corporation from mining the patient data for profit.
The joke it has evolved into is ridiculous.
Yup, and mining for profit is what they were doing there. And because there isn't public, mass breach but just individuals being extorted there is no way to get HIPAA involved by the public who are being extorted.
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This thread shot to the top of the most popular charts pretty quickly!
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@scottalanmiller said:
This thread shot to the top of the most popular charts pretty quickly!
And it's not even really done yet.
Though to be fair, it kind of delved out into the HIPAA landscape, which was inevitable but not necessarily desirable.
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Yes, the original question was more generic. HIPAA has much better reasons to look at general encryption.
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Most topics here tend to branch out... sometimes not too far out (like this one)... and other times, they branch out into left field in somebody else's baseball park, lol.
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@dafyre said:
Most topics tend to branch out...
FTFY. It is the nature of conversations. Go to the diner with friends, sit around having coffee for a few hours and a topic that starts things, like the weather or the nature of freedom or do we really exists at all will lead from one topic into another and take tangents and sometimes return and sometimes not. Conversations naturally go in all different directions.
That it happens here too is both just organic and it is an intrinsic nature of a community and discussion forum rather than being a Q&A forum a la StackOverflow.
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@scottalanmiller said:
FTFY. It is the nature of conversations. Go to the diner with friends, sit around having coffee for a few hours and a topic that starts things, like the weather or the nature of freedom or do we really exists at all will lead from one topic into another and take tangents and sometimes return and sometimes not. Conversations naturally go in all different directions.
That it happens here too is both just organic and it is an intrinsic nature of a community and discussion forum rather than being a Q&A forum a la StackOverflow.
Are you purposely trying to branch this out into a THIRD discussion?
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It just happens organically.
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So bringing this offshoot back here.
I think I now understand you are talking about, if it makes sense, to store all the data in the cloud, and work on none of it locally.
However, is there is a need to produce something locally, it might be needed to bring it down, and hence you would need to secure it in whatever way deemed necessary.
For example, doing a postal mailing from a list of PHI from a medical client.
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@BRRABill said:
So bringing this offshoot back here.
I think I now understand you are talking about, if it makes sense, to store all the data in the cloud, and work on none of it locally.
However, is there is a need to produce something locally, it might be needed to bring it down, and hence you would need to secure it in whatever way deemed necessary.
Right. And then upload it back to your non-local storage after you have finished working with it.
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@BRRABill said:
So bringing this offshoot back here.
I think I now understand you are talking about, if it makes sense, to store all the data in the cloud, and work on none of it locally.
However, is there is a need to produce something locally, it might be needed to bring it down, and hence you would need to secure it in whatever way deemed necessary.
For example, doing a postal mailing from a list of PHI from a medical client.
Any reason that you would want to do the printing with data locally on the end client rather than directly from the SaaS application?
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If you are using the online version of MS Office, you don't need to pull data down locally to print. So if you were to send me an Excel spreadsheet to print, it would open directly from OWA to Hosted Excel. Then when I tell it to print, it would do it from there. No need for local data for that kind of task, for example.
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@dafyre said:
@BRRABill said:
So bringing this offshoot back here.
I think I now understand you are talking about, if it makes sense, to store all the data in the cloud, and work on none of it locally.
However, is there is a need to produce something locally, it might be needed to bring it down, and hence you would need to secure it in whatever way deemed necessary.
Right. And then upload it back to your non-local storage after you have finished working with it.
Yup. Hard to come up with real world cases where this would be necessary, though. You have to come up with stuff like "local video editing" where you are using a laptop instead of a workstation and can't do it on a hosted SaaS application. These cases exist, but they are very rare and specialty today.
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@scottalanmiller said:
If you are using the online version of MS Office, you don't need to pull data down locally to print. So if you were to send me an Excel spreadsheet to print, it would open directly from OWA to Hosted Excel. Then when I tell it to print, it would do it from there. No need for local data for that kind of task, for example.
When I did that, it made a PDF to download.
Now, granted, this was the free version of Word, and on a Mac.
So perhaps it would work as you say with the full version.
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@BRRABill said:
@scottalanmiller said:
If you are using the online version of MS Office, you don't need to pull data down locally to print. So if you were to send me an Excel spreadsheet to print, it would open directly from OWA to Hosted Excel. Then when I tell it to print, it would do it from there. No need for local data for that kind of task, for example.
When I did that, it made a PDF to download.
Now, granted, this was the free version of Word, and on a Mac.
So perhaps it would work as you say with the full version.
What do you mean? you choose the option to print and it didn't print, instead it offered you a PDF?
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@Dashrender said:
What do you mean? you choose the option to print and it didn't print, instead it offered you a PDF?
Yes.
I chose PRINT (from WORD ONLINE) and it then said "HERE IS YOUR PDF TO PRINT".
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@BRRABill said:
@scottalanmiller said:
If you are using the online version of MS Office, you don't need to pull data down locally to print. So if you were to send me an Excel spreadsheet to print, it would open directly from OWA to Hosted Excel. Then when I tell it to print, it would do it from there. No need for local data for that kind of task, for example.
When I did that, it made a PDF to download.
Now, granted, this was the free version of Word, and on a Mac.
So perhaps it would work as you say with the full version.
You probably don't have Office 365 with online MS Office. So there is no online tools for you to use.
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@BRRABill said:
@Dashrender said:
What do you mean? you choose the option to print and it didn't print, instead it offered you a PDF?
Yes.
I chose PRINT (from WORD ONLINE) and it then said "HERE IS YOUR PDF TO PRINT".
That's super weird!
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I'd test some more but.... logins for Office 365 appear to be down right now.
