Hi.
I think the only way you are going to achieve this one is to form your own
organization to produce the materials that you wish to produce. You are
not going to change Handi-hams because their core business through the
Courage Center is based on a medical model and there is simply no option
for them in this area. If you do not like it, I suggest you start your own
organization, and as long as you don't transmit any medical information
electronically in any part of your organization, you do not have to worry
about HIPAA. Otherwise, I think you are asking for something that simply
isn't going to happen.
73, de Lou K2LKK
At 11:16 AM 1/16/2005 -0700, you wrote:
>Hi Tom,
>
>Benetech is not a medical provider and thus the Bookshare sign up process is
>much more reasonable. Handiham isn't, or at least shouldn't be, a medical
>provider either. But I think we've already had this discussion last year
>about the requirements associated with Handiham's being associated with a
>rehabilitation agency and the merits or lack thereof.
>
>I guess different people need different things. I don't need someone to
>take care of me from a medical standpoint when it comes to my participation
>in amateur radio, or in about 95 percent of the rest of my life for that
>matter. I just need and want to have greater access to all that my hobby,
>or the things in the rest of my life, has to offer.
>
>I think I can certainly accept and understand more rigorous paperwork
>requirements for activities such as Radio Camp participation, but, even
>then, I'm a big boy and can take care of my self and meet my own medical
>needs. I would attend for the purpose of meeting others and participating
>in the hobby, which is most certainly not medical in nature.
>
>I guess there is a medical and a nonmedical approach to dealing with people
>with disabilities and I choose the nonmedical one. If I need medical help,
>I see a doctor! Otherwise, I'd prefer that the medical aspects of my
>disability be left out of the equation as much as possible.
>
>In any event, I don't think HIPAA rules demand that Handiham's application
>process be as inaccessible as possible. I suspect there is some room for
>accomodations.
>
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
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>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2005 11:07 AM
>Subject: Re: Revisiting accessible amateur radio study materials.
>
>
> > Darrell, that's a question you'd have to take up with the Federal
> > Government
> > folks. Being a clinician I can tell you that when anything vaguely
> > meedical is
> > involved at a facility paperwork which you would not believe becomes a
> > requirement. The patient/client only sees the tip of what actually goes
> > on but
> > because Handi-Hams is a part of a facility with medical aspects to it
> > there is
> > simply no way to avoid the system as it is. Very specific paperwork is
> > REQUIRED
> > and it must be done in a very SPECIFIC way to meet those requirements.
> > Remember
> > that the U.S. government is exempt from having to comply with the ADA,
> > section
> > 504, etc.
> >
> > Tom
> >
> >
> > Tom Brennan KD5VIJ, CCC-A/SLP
> > web page http://titan.sfasu.edu/~g_brennantg/sonicpage.html
Louis Kim Kline
A.R.S. K2LKK
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