"More Patient Data Risks, Lawsuits Predicted In 2012: The new year promises to bring greater patient data risks as healthcare organizations increase their use of mobile technology and social media sites ..."
With more and more companies exposing sensitive information through various mistakes and errors the number of litigious actions will increase with health care at the forefront. A recent report indicates that "More Patient Data Risks, Lawsuits Predicted for 2012". You don’t need a crystal ball to see the fallout; every company that handles sensitive information is a target for legal action.
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"Healthcare organizations that are performing risk assessments as a way to craft patient-privacy policies might want to consider a new potential attack vector: federal regulators ..."
Not only has HIPAA developed claws but has become aggressive; "Warning: HIPAA Has Teeth and Will Bite Over Healthcare Privacy Blunders. The US Health and Human Services department has decided to take off the gloves; if you are in the healthcare business there is a new sheriff in town.
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Singapore has opted for an extensive implementation of Oracle solutions in the establishment of its National Electronic Health Record (NEHR) system. NEHR has deployed
Oracle Healthcare Transaction Base, Oracle Database 11g, multiple Oracle Database Options, Oracle VM, and several components of Oracle Fusion Middleware, such as Oracle Identity Management 11g, Oracle SOA Suite 11g and Oracle WebLogic Suite 11g. NEHR will enable health care providers to access a single patient record for medical information, including patient demographics, diagnosis, medications, tests, procedures and discharge summaries, for exchange among clinicians. This comprehensive deployment of a platform for electronic health records was completed in 10 months with the aid of Oracle Consulting.
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In their survey of managers familiar with the Oracle/SPARC and IBM/POWER servers, ORCInternational's purpose was to determine the responses of these individuals to issues such as the respective strengths and weaknesses of both sets of servers; factors affecting total cost of ownership (TOC); key system differentiators; and purchase criteria rankings. The respondents spanned several industries, including banking and finance, telecom, healthcare, and insurance.
Findings revealed that TOC, performance and acquisition cost (including hidden costs) were the three most important criteria governing product choice. Oracle surpassed IBM in terms of both fewer hidden costs and equal or better real-world performance. Oracle won greater favor in the category of required scheduled downtime as well.
Both the robustness and the scalability of Solaris OS won favor with a greater number of respondents than did AIX. Over-dependence on IBM consulting services was another condition that customers expressed wariness about. The need for such over-dependence was mitigated by Oracle's hallmark integrated solution approach to system design in the eyes of respondents.
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The seven-page pdf "Oracle Next Generation Data Centre Index -- Media Fact Sheet" is a research-based snapshot into the sophistication of the data centre strategies of organisations in Europe, the Middle East and USA. Oracle has found that many businesses are lagging behind in their use of innovative technology in data centres, meaning they are unable to meet industry demands and respond to change quickly. On average, businesses scored 5.28 on a scale of 0 to 10 (where 10 would be the most sophisticated data centre strategy), that maps organisations’ performance in achieving data centre flexibility, sustainability and supportability, highlighting that many are failing to return business value from their IT. In terms of overall performance, management and IT capabilities telco is a consistent leader; utilities and financial services (FS) also rank in the top three. The telco industry is also first in the Flexibility, Sustainable and Supportability Indices, Oracle reports, speculating that this lead is the result of telco, FS and utilities having made the most progress around virtualisation. Telco, FS and Utilities have also done the most around consolidation, the report continues. In terms of consolidation, public sector, retail and healthcare have done the least.
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