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Ask HN: HL7 Integration Experts

I am trying to find someone that will help me validate some assumptions about a Health Care Provider integration project I am working on.I am looking for someone that can help me understand what it takes to integrate in to a Health Care providers prior authorization work flow. We would be working with companies such as United Health Care and want to make it as easy as possible for them to...

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Starting to sound like the book "The Circle" http://www.amazon.com/The-Circle-Dave-Eggers/dp/0345807294.
Re:Email reuse from deactivated accounts on Tuesday January 27, 2015 @02:45PM (#8955236)
I was trying to convince an ISP that they should not be recycling emails for prior customers. They seem to think it was not an issue but I told them they were mistaken.

I tried to express that by giving out the old customers email they were allowing the new person to perform things like password resets or even receive email that was suppose to go the orginal account owner.

In the end I got them to revoke the email they reused and make sure it is never given out again.

Email reuse from deactivated accounts

Does anyone know of any standards or generally accepted rules for giving out someones old email address to a new customer.The reason I ask is: A family member recently (3 months ago) closed their account with their ISP and lost access to their email. Ok fine. But if I send email to that address I find that they have already given it to another customer. I think this is a big security issue...

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Ever back out of a accepted Job?

For the first time in my life I accepted a position and then had to back out at the last minute because another better oportunity presented itself at the last minute. I have to say I feel like an ass but I just felt I had to do it.How many of you has this happened to? How did you go about managing the situation.

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