Removing Table Borders in Word 2010

Many time when you create tables, you do not want the borders to show.  If you want to remove table borders, complete the following:

1. Under TABLE TOOLS, click LAYOUT, SELECT, SELECT TABLE.
2. Under TABLE TOOLS, click DESIGN, BORDERS, click NO BORDER to remove all your borders.

In some tables, you will want to leave some borders and remove others.  You can also remove top, bottom, left, and right borders along with other options shown below.  Once you remove all borders, you can also go to Step 2 to view your gridlines which allows you to see your invisible borders and makes it much easier to move in the table.

HIPAA Violations

According to Christine Meyers' article, Most Common HIPAA Violation? Small-Scale Snooping dated August 14, 2012:

"Small-scale snooping is actually far more common than large scale theft or dramatic losses of equipment containing PHI. In fact, in the 2011 Survey of Patient Privacy Breaches*, about 70% of the survey respondents reported that they had experienced a HIPAA breach of some level—with the majority of those violations occurring as a result of snooping activity. Insiders were responsible for the majority of breaches, with 35 percent snooping into medical records of fellow employees and 27 percent accessing records of friends and relatives. More than half of the respondents stated that they lacked the appropriate tools for monitoring inappropriate access to PHI."

Since OFA 205 is currently working on medical documents, I thought I would post the civil violations and enforcements from the AMA website.  After reviewing these, you can see that your curiosity at work is not worth the consequences.  Medical offices have employees log in each day.  Based on your login, your employer can see how many records you access each day and who they were.  If you have no business lurking in a patient's file, you will eventually be caught.  You are given a great amount of responsibility with patient health information.  Please don't abuse it.

HIPAA Violation	Minimum Penalty	Maximum Penalty
Individual did not know (and by exercising reasonable diligence would not have known) that he/she violated HIPAA	$100 per violation, with an annual maximum of $25,000 for repeat violations (Note: maximum that can be imposed by State Attorneys General regardless of the type of violation)	$50,000 per violation, with an annual maximum of $1.5 million
HIPAA violation due to reasonable cause and not due to willful neglect	$1,000 per violation, with an annual maximum of $100,000 for repeat violations	$50,000 per violation, with an annual maximum of $1.5 million
HIPAA violation due to willful neglect but violation is corrected within the required time period	$10,000 per violation, with an annual maximum of $250,000 for repeat violations	$50,000 per violation, with an annual maximum of $1.5 million
HIPAA violation is due to willful neglect and is not corrected	$50,000 per violation, with an annual maximum of $1.5 million	$50,000 per violation, with an annual maximum of $1.5 million

Selecting Text in Word

There are a few shortcuts you have in Word that make selecting text very easy.  The ones I use most are:

To select a word, double-click the word.

To select a sentence, press CTRL and click anywhere in the sentence.

To select an entire paragraph, triple click anywhere in the paragraph.

To select your entire document, press CTRL + A.

International Addresses

Unfortunately, there is not one international format for addressing correspondence.  Each country differs in the layout, hierarchical alignment, and items to include.  So, how will we know how to send three identical letters to three different countries?  Anything I don't know (and if you know me well, that's quite a bit), I always go and ask using my search engine of choice (and if you have ever sat through one of my classes you know that my favorite is Google).  There are several good sites that will help you with the layout, alignment, and items.  Those sites are:

• http://www.addressdoctor.com/en/countries-data/address-formats.html
• http://bitboost.com/ref/international-address-formats.html#Formats
• https://www.usps.com/send/international-addressing-tips.htm

You may even be wondering why we are learning how to address letters with the popularity of electronic correspondence.  For some situations, nothing can replace snail mail/formal correspondence.  

1. Formal correspondence (snail mail) will earn more respect and time from the addressee.  How many times have you deleted an e-mail without looking at it just based on who the sender is where letters addressed to you (that aren't junk mail) usually are opened and at least skimmed because you believe that few people will spend the time and money to send an item through the mail unless there is an important reason.
2. E-mail correspondence is referred to as informal correspondence.  We tend to use abbreviations, texting slang, etc. when writing them.  E-mail does not carry the same clout as formally written letters on paper.