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Western Carolinian Volume 68 Number 09

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  • Have you been hit by adware, spyware, trojan horses or any key logging applications? Has your homepage been hijacked by a strange new search engine? Are hidden servers using your computer? If you have been victimized while surfing the web, share your experience with us. Send your comments or questions and we will publish them in the next issue and hopefully provide some answers for you. Also next issue, we will also be bringing you the latest security tips for your PC. As more and more companies merge and share information, do you know how secure your personal privacy is? Who gets to peek into your personal files? In this issue, read about security issues with search engines on page 10. Learn how to protect yourself through safe surfing practices so you too can enjoy unhampered web browsing while protecting your personal identity. WC@WCU.EDU Bring it on! Photo: Left to Right Back: Mary Teslow, HIM faculty, Shanelle Joyner, April Curry, Irene Mueller, HIM faculty. Front: Brandi Burnette, Parker Taylor, Jeremy Whitted. (Photo by Natalie Breitenstein) The Health Information Management (HIM) program at WCU helped their students to be comfortable, competent and successful in the e-Health and e-HIM environment by loaning Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) to each senior in August 2003. The many features of the PDAs are used by the students for on-campus coursework and during their Professional Practice Experience (PPE) courses when they are working and learning off-campus at healthcare facilities. Expertise with a wide variety of computer technologies is essential for career success in e-HIM. HIPAA, privacy of patients information, and healthcare data security are HIM issues being profoundly changed by increased patient and provider use of the Internet, wireless technologies and transition to a paperless environment in healthcare. The rapid development of the Electronic Health Record (EHR) has led to the creation of e-Health organizations, which collect, maintain and display individually identifiable health information of e-Health consumers via the Internet. These changes are driving the evolution of HIM to electronic Health Information Management (e-HIM). In on-campus courses, students learn the basic functions including schedules and alarms, address book and e- business cards, to do list, note taking, calculator, downloading software, synchronizing their PDA and desktop computer to transfer documents and files, and beaming files and photos between PDAs. Technology on the go. At the end of the fall semester, the seniors individually spent three weeks at a North Carolina healthcare facility. Their PDAs put them on the cutting edge of healthcare technology and were a valuable tool for efficiently managing their PPE activities and assignments before returning to campus. Elizabeth Rolfe shares some of her experience. I have used my Palm just about every day at UNC! Since I am in meetings every day with different people in the department, I have lots of information to write down. I have found that it is a lot easier to write my journal entry for the day regarding my PPE experience in my Palm and download that information onto my computer when I get home. Using our Palms for applications such as recording memos and notes is a great time saver. College Democrats and College Republicans Duke It Out in Another Debate By Jessica Jarrard | WC The Student Association of Government and _ Legal Affairs (SAGLA) has announced it will host a _ College Republican vs. College Democrat debate each _ semester here on campus. The first debate was in _ November. The second debate is scheduled for Tuesday, _ March 23 at 7 P.M. in the UC Theater (located on the third floor). The College Republicans and the College _ Democrats each had five members on the panel. The five _ topic areas discussed included education, social issues, foreign policy, environment and the economy. Arguments were based on the ideologies of the party and not the individuals who represented them. In head to head debates _ with a point-counterpoint setup, students argued the issues based on questions asked by the moderator Dr. Gibbs Knotts. Issues like No Child Left Behind, Affirmative Action in schools, Bushs tax cuts, job loss, oil drilling in Alaska, abortion, the death penalty and the War on Terror were all discussed. After the point-counterpoint arguments, the audience was allowed to ask questions. The audience got to hear the stance of the each party regarding the issues. For some it provided a better Cees of what each party stood for. In the upcoming debate the same topics with a _ number of different issues will be discussed as politics have changed since November. With the primaries wrapping up and candidates starting the full campaign swing this debate is set to cover the most pressing current issues. Seeing that this is closer to an election year, this debate will be much more important as this could help sway people to a party and help them decide who they want to vote for in November at all levels, says Jim McCabe, SAGLA president. SAGLAs goal as an organization is to break down the walls of ignorance and apathy. Hosting debates like this are just one of the ways in which they plan to do that. SAGLA holds voter registration drives to get students more involved and registered to vote. SAGLA also assisted in the Congress to Campus program in which _ they and the Political Science Department brought former _ Congressmen Bill Zeliff R-NH and Lloyd Meeds D-WA to _ campus to speak to students about getting involved. Members of the organization are selling raffle tickets. The club has promised to pay three $10 parking tickets for those who win the raffle and show up for the _ debate. Tickets are 75 cents for one and two for a dollar. You must be present at the debate in order to redeem the prize.
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