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Investigating Blockchain's Role in Health Info Exchange
Federal regulators are considering the role that blockchain technology could play in advancing the secure exchange of healthcare information, says Steve Posnack of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT. Blockchain - an open source distributed ledger technology that's associated with the cryptocurrency bitcoin - "has a lot of different potential implementations, and I think its diversity in how it can be implemented is one of the attractive features. It's not just a one-trick pony," he says in an interview at the HIMSS17 conference in Orlando...
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iPhones And iPads Poised To Win Key Pentagon Security Nod Next Week
Apple, within days, is set to finish clearing two safety hurdles that had kept the iPhone and iPad out of fingers’ way in the Defense Department and some civilian agencies. Read More »
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Is Big Data Already Outpacing Health IT?
Call it super-mega big data. Taking just one example, cancer research, highlights how far the healthcare industry has yet to go to actually make sense from the mountains of information that already exist. Read More »
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IT Consumerization: A Case Study of BYOD in a Healthcare Setting
This article focuses on the implementation of BYOD in a healthcare setting. First, the challenges of implementing BYOD in the healthcare industry are examined. Next, a case study of The Ottawa Hospital is developed to illustrate the practical benefits and hurdles that must be overcome when hospital staff begin using consumer IT devices in the workplace. Finally, recommendations are offered to help healthcare organizations develop and implement a successful BYOD strategy. Read More »
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IT Iconoclasts: Experts Offer Dissent On Policy Issues, Technology Implementation
Each month, more hospitals and office-based physicians buy and use electronic medical records and other health information technologies as the U.S. presses on toward achieving the goal first articulated by President George W. Bush in 2004: providing most Americans with access to an electronic medical record within a decade... Read More »
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James Risen's Risk Of Prison Means Journalism Is Being Criminalised
That a New York Times national security reporter may be jailed for refusing to name a source is a total affront to press freedom Read More »
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JFrog And Black Duck Software Partner, Announce Integration Of Artifactory Pro And Black Duck Suite
Black Duck Software, the trusted partner for open source software adoption, management and governance, and JFrog, creator of the Artifactory Repository Management Solution, today announced a partnership under which JFrog Artifactory Pro is integrated with Black Duck Suite, providing unprecedented levels of control, efficiency and visibility throughout the development lifecycle when using open source components. Read More »
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Kansas Health Information Exchange Calls It A Day
The board responsible for overseeing the digital exchange of Kansans' health records today unanimously approved transferring its duties to a state agency within a year, provided the Legislature acts to make the transfer legal. Read More »
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Larry Ponemon On Securing Regulated Data In Healthcare: Q&A
Though mobile applications that share files through the cloud such as Box and DropBox can be appealing to consumers, the Ponemon Institute has found that these types of applications can be unsafe in a clinical environment. [...] Read More »
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Lavabit Files Opening Brief In Landmark Privacy Case
Secure email provider Lavabit just filed the opening brief in its appeal of a court order demanding it turn over the private SSL keys that protected all web traffic to the site. Read More »
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Lawmakers Re-Introduce GPS Protection Bill Against Government Spying
Just two days after new legislative reform on e-mail privacy was re-introduced in Congress, another privacy bill was brought back from years past. Read More »
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Lessons To Be Learned From The Scariest Recent Open Source Vulnerabilities
Tis the season for spooks and frights, but the last thing any enterprise wants to experience is the terror of security vulnerabilities. In the past six months, we’ve seen three damaging open source security bugs; two of which have potentially exposed hundreds of thousands of websites and hundreds of millions of computers, servers, and devices...
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Let’s Build A More Secure Internet
[...] In the wake of the disclosures about the National Security Agency’s surveillance programs, considerable attention has been focused on the agency’s collaboration with companies like Microsoft, Apple and Google, which according to leaked documents appear to have programmed “back door” encryption weaknesses into popular consumer products and services like Hotmail, iPhones and Android phones. Read More »
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Libelium Brings New Smart Lighting Sensor Solution To Smart Cities
Libelium today announced the availability of a new Smart Lighting solution for Smart Cities deployments based on the modular Waspmote Plug & Sense! wireless sensor network platform. Read More »
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Life-Giving Software Should Be Open: GNOME Foundation Chief
Software that controls vital human functions should always be open source, else it could prove to be a danger to one's existence, the executive director of the GNOME Foundation says. Read More »
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