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SSA testing Microsoft HealthVault
The goal is to get digital records to improve disability determinations 
 


Federal Computer Week (FCW)-- FCW reports the Social Security Administration (SSA) has entered into an agreement to test the use of the Microsoft HealthVault software for SSA's disability determination process.
 
SSA has been trying out several ways to collect electronically the health records of people applying for disability income. SSA currently requests about 15 million to 20 million medical records a year in a process that is labor- and paper-intensive.

HealthVault is a free online personal health record service in which patients are encouraged to collect and store their health information in a single location.

The SSA said Aug. 27 that it and Microsoft are developing a technical prototype connecting the two organizations that will be available later this year. SSA also will collaborate with Microsoft to study current personal health record standards, gaps in those standards, and options for filling those gaps 

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What is rDNS?
 
Reverse DNS (rDNS) is a method of resolving an IP address into a domain name, just as the domain name system (DNS) resolves domain names into associated IP addresses. One of the applications of reverse DNS is as a spam filter. Here's how it works: Typically, a spammer uses an invalid IP address, one that doesn't match the domain name. A reverse DNS lookup program inputs IP addresses of incoming messages to a DNS database. If no valid name is found to match the IP address, the server blocks that message.
 
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