Re: FoxPro and HIPPA by John
John
Thu Mar 17 13:31:42 CST 2005
VFP's native data format is not particularly encrypted so you'd need to roll
your own (or check third party options) for the encryption of data. I don't
know all details of HIPAA, but aside from it being easier to open a Fox
table with a text editor and make sense of the data than, say a MSSQL
database, most DBMS are pretty easy to read if you have a password and the
appropriate software--unless you take some specific precautions.
As far as local machine storage, as Dan alluded to, pretty much any DBMS can
write data to anywhere it's told (assuming security rights).
Basically, some DBMSes may have some built in functionality or proprietary
formats that make their standard methods of doing things a little more or
less compliant, but it's far more how it's used by the developers that
determines its compliance.
- John
"g8rgeek" <g8rgeek@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:5ABD58CE-FC48-4F71-B042-E7B51C415A8E@microsoft.com...
> Correct. Perhaps the better way to ask would have been - it is
> non-compliant, i.e. storing data in unencrypted form, saving a copy of the
> data on the local machine, etc.
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
> "Dan Freeman" wrote:
>
>> HIPAA regulates how you handle/safeguard personal data. No software
>> package
>> can ever be compliant. How that packages is *used* can be compliant, but
>> the
>> software itself will never be compliant.
>>
>> Dan
>>
>> g8rgeek wrote:
>> > Is FoxPro HIPPA compliant?
>>
>>
>>