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www.HealthcareITNews.com management solutions CloaK & Data Wyckoff Heights Medical Center’s criteria for an information security system is representative of what most provider RFPs would be: easy to operate, transparent to the enduser, highly secure and reasonably priced. Jack Ksiazek, director of systems and project management for the New York-based hospital, says Palo Alto, Calif.-based Accellion’s Secure File Transfer appliance delivered on all counts. “It not only secures documents sent back and forth, it has a sophis- September 2007 ■ Healthcare IT News 51 IdeNTITy Continued from page 50 need to access,” he said. “But we’ve been able to reduce the process of setting up their accounts and applications to a couple of hours.” A common (and often successful) identity theft strategy is a reconnaissance approach, John Grimm whereby an insider gains access to one network and works through the system to access others, noted Chandler Hall, vice president of marketing for Huntsville, Ala.-based Arxceo. “The intrusions we see today start with someone sneaking inside a network and moving through it until they find personal information,” he said. “That is what happened with TJ Maxx – it started with one store and in 17 months went through the entire network until it found credit card numbers.” Arxceo offers an anti-reconnaissance program run by an appliance costing less than $1,000 that camouflages operating systems and provides a virtual bulkhead to keep information from being compromised. “It separates areas from each other to prevent someone in the waiting room from sliding in using a laptop to scan and work their way past the customer-friendly wireless system into the infrastructure itself,” Hall said. “the intrusions we see today start with someone sneaking inside the network and moving through it until tHeY FinD PeRsonal inFoRmation.” – Chandler Hall ticated layer of encryption for larger attachments,” he said. “It is done on the back end so users don’t have to do anything extra. A lot of companies say their product is ‘plug and play,’ but this one really is. And it was amazingly affordable.” Austin, Texas-based Gemalto is tackling information security from the patient’s end, developing a personal health care “smart card” with Broomfield, Colo.-based LifeNexus that links the consumer’s personal, financial, emergency care, insurance and medical information. “The card takes the burden off the patient and helps the provider manage data and add in protection steps for the patient,” said Jack Jania, Gemalto’s vice president and general manager of secure transactions. “Patient records are mirrored on the provider database, but the data is only referenced to the card, not the patient.” ■ More at HealthcareITNews.com e Connect: ideNtity 0907 ● MONITOR Continued from page 9 expenditures to improve the quality of care through IT,” the reader added. An almost equal number of readers disagreed with this assessment, and believed that Moore’s film had little to add to the debate over healthcare IT. “The movie does not grasp the complexity of healthcare, much less the [ability of ] IT to enable better care,” complained an anonymous reader. “The movie tries too hard to blame large pharmaceutical firms – focusing on medications only – for poor healthcare delivery leaving out the physician point-ofcare decision process altogether.” “Michael Moore is nothing but a political hack,” wrote James Day of Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring, Md., expressing the views of many readers. Some readers thought that, regardless of Moore’s political views, the film was good fodder for debate. “If you eliminate ‘the extremes’, Michael Moore’s picture has a lot of relevance for today’s healthcare world in the U.S.,” said John Wade of St. Luke’s Health System in Kansas City, Mo. “We should all see this film and then figure out how to fix this industry.” ■ More at HealthcareITNews.com e Connect: MoNitor 0907 ● e ● Connect: Mie 0907 http://www.HealthcareITNews.com http://www.HealthcareITNews.com http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=7698 http://www.mieweb.com http://www.HealthcareITNews.com http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=7665 http://www.mieweb.com http://www.healthcareitnews.com/eConnect.cms?id=7744

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Contents Alaska Sweep SiCKO Debate Data Exchange Rx EDITH knows Hold That Script IT in the Sun Breathing Easy IT on the Menu Ambulatory EMRs Identity Crisis

Healthcare IT News - September 2007

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