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• How Fake Emails Have Become A Real Threat

  8/1/2018

  To start the year, news broke of an attack that used a phishing email scam to steal 30,000 medical records from the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration. Similar phishing attacks have happened every month since the November attack, exposing tens of thousands more records. More attacks are assuredly underway — and on the way.

• How Virtua Healthcare Transitioned To An IP-Based Surveillance System

  6/27/2013

  Since Virtua’s facilities have the latest, state-of-the- art digital equipment, Virtua administrators felt it was necessary to upgrade their video surveillance to safeguard its tools. Their current surveillance system included a number of analog cameras that were not meeting their coverage capabilities and video resolution needs. The video management system (VMS) software became too cumbersome to operate on a daily basis, missing the ability to access usable recorded images.

• The Project Doctor Is In: The Importance Of Routine Project Health Checks

  11/8/2018

  Can a software project be alive? This is an interesting idea, as a software project has no body, no apparent vital signs to measure, and has no other tangible qualities one would attribute to “life." A project is born, it grows, it consumes resources, and has a finite end usually marked by retiring support or through abrupt termination. Inorganic, incorporeal, but it is indeed living, and it requires proper and routine check-ups to keep the project headed toward success. As a doctor performs a health check on patients, so to must project leaders check-up on their living projects.

• Patient Matching Strategies In An M&A Environment

  8/8/2017

  Despite intense efforts and significant investments to implement EHRs, duplicate records continue to plague providers. Patient data matching functionalities within EHRs often lack the complexities to reconcile records from disparate and external systems. By Dan Cidon, Chief Technology Officer, NextGate

• Data Breaches - Can We Outsmart The Attackers?

  5/15/2018

  The demand for connected devices has increased rapidly in recent years, and medical devices have not been immune from the technological revolution. Today, medical devices are able to communicate across private networks, internet, and point to point connections, allowing for an efficient service which could inevitably save lives. With this in mind, securing these devices and the entire hospital ecosystem from potential cybersecurity attacks is critical.

• Age-In-Place Storage: When Not To Tier And Migrate Active Data

  11/12/2009

  We acknowledge the changes in file reference behavior are subtle, consistent, and complex. There are two ways to “look” at any file on a Unix file system4. The most common is with the file’s path and name, which is exactly what people and most programs do when they open or close a file as we look at a directory structure. Even so, names are not used to mange files. By Randy Chalfant