HIPAA/HiTech Compliance Seminar

SSGI will be presenting a HIPAA/HiTech Compliance Seminar at the Northwest Connecticut Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday, April 27th from 8:30am to 10:00am. The seminar will help healthcare providers understand the changes in the HIPAA rules that the HiTech Act has introduced.

During the seminar SSGI will announce a partnership with eGestalt to provide web based HIPAA compliance assessements. These assessments will help healthcare providers determine their current compliance status and help them become and stay compliant.

For more information conact the Chamber of Commerce office at 860-496-8684 or SSGI at 800-897-7002.

Office 2010 Ribbon Bar to Menu Pull Down Help

We have been converting many of our Clients to Microsoft Office 2010 from various older versions of Office.  Overall, everything is going well.  However, for some Clients the Ribbon Bar, introduced in Office 2007, is causing some problems.  Even though the design of the Ribbon Bar is supposed to make finding all the the various Office functions easier, it can actually be more difficult for those that have already created a mental path to finding those functions in the old menu pull downs.  This appears to be a common problem.  To address the issue, Microsoft has created several tools to help users make the change.  You can find them here.

I have found that the Ribbon Bar is actually easier to use, but I do find that sometimes I just can’t find something that I used to be able to locate pretty quickly.  By using these tools and a little replication I can get my brain to accept the change.