Why Open Source The Internet Must Play A Role In Medicine
ng is hard to read is often repeated for a reason. During his presentation at the Red Hat Summit in boston, Dr. John Halamka, CIO of Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, discussed four key reasons why medical records should be stored online. Storage, compliance, patient access and community ... of Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, discussed four key reasons why medical records should be stored online. Storage, compliance, patient access and community are among the ( supremely productive) Halamka's supporting reasons for his claim that online medical records will ensure a national standard of healthcare.Privacy ...

State Street Suffers Data Theft
he theft of a disk, which may contain the personal details of more than 45,000 people.The boston firm confirmed yesterday that the disk was stolen from an unnamed vendor providing "legal support services." In a statement on its Website, State Street explained that the disk contained information on employees and ... er to the third-party vendor was encrypted. The legal support specialist then decrypted this data and stored it on a hard drive that was subsequently stolen, according to the report.The drive, which contained names, addresses, and, in some cases, Social Security numbers, was apparently stolen in December and reported ...

Google Health To Help Patients Manage Medical Records
press conference on the state of the company's flagship search product, says Dr. John Halamka, CIO of Beth Israel Deaconess, a boston-area hospital participating in the program.Patients often have files at different health care organizations, typically maintained and stored at their physicians' offices. According to Halamka, the new ... Google launched Google Health Monday, a service that allows people to store all their health records from different health care organizations in one central portal.The announcement was made at Google's headquarters in Mountain View, during a press conference on the state of the ...

Here Comes The College Student Storage Season
Each May, moving vans and storage companies descend upon boston University's campus as the "mass exodus" of college students from boston begins.Although though this process has occurred for decades, not much has changed about the dilemma: students need to move, ship or ... hough this process has occurred for decades, not much has changed about the dilemma: students need to move, ship or store their belongings for the summer in limited spaces that are increasingly expensive. This year, the official move out will begin as finals take their leave on May 13."It's a pain," College of General Studies sophomore Andres Febres ...

Red Soxs Latest Mvp Emcs Traveling Data Center
When the boston Red Sox travel to Japan later this month to play Japanese teams in Tokyo, the team will carry the usual assortment of players' favorite bats and uniforms. Also making the trip will be the team's modern coveted talisman -- its EMC ... razy" with technology, said Lewis as he outlined the team's near-obsession with statistics and videos -- all of it captured, stored, and pulled up quickly.During the AIIM session, Red Sox chief operating officer Mike Dee reported in from the team's spring training workout in Florida. He said running a baseball team is similar ...

Emc Helps Banish Babe Ruths
nology did provide a critical boost at the right moment.In game four of the 2004 American League Championship Series, with the boston Red Sox trailing the archrival New York Yankees three games to none, Red Sox pinch runner Dave Roberts sat in the clubhouse, studying videos of Yankees closer Mariano Rivera pitching from the stretch with a man on first.Two innings ... ld Series against the St. Louis Cardinals, ending an 86-year drought for the Red Sox.The video Roberts studied was stored on a server-based storage array that was on its last leg. It crashed twice in the World Series against the Cardinals, forcing the Red Sox to search for an array that could withstand the rigors of ...

Red Sox Hook Up Nas For Home Runs
While the boston Red Sox were sweeping the Colorado Rockies to win the 2007 World Series, Red Sox IT director Steve Conley was wrestling with a unique challenge of his own."The SAN that we travel with, we outgrew," explains ... p with video of Red Sox players and competitors."From a baseball standpoint, there's no bad video, they want to store it as long as they can," says Conley, estimating that the team generates about 2.5 Tbytes of video each year. "We were out of storage -- I would have had to add more storage, which would add weight."The ...

Emc Goes Into The Cloud
boston - EMC Corp, the world's biggest maker of corporate storage computing gear, said on Thursday it was hiring former Microsoft Corp executive Paul Maritz to run a division to develop services delivered over the Web.EMC also ... t is developing technology that will allow businesses and consumers to control who has access to information stored in cloud computing centers.Web cloud computing could help improve healthcare, for example, by holding detailed electronic medical records, said Carl Howe, a Yankee Group analyst that EMC briefed on its strategy. ...

Iron Mountain Delivers To Australia
boston and SYDNEY -- Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM), the global leader in information protection and storage services, today announced that its ConnectedBackup for PC and LiveVaultserver backup solutions are now available ... ce and allows local shipment of large amounts of data, but also provides our customers peace of mind that their data is stored and protected within Australian ...

It Executives Slam Storage Vendors For Not Being Green Enough
boston, MA. September 25, 2007 Eighty-eight per cent of North American IT departments say storage vendors should be doing more to improve the energy efficiency of their products according to a survey of IT executives. And ... hen you start taking an enterprise-wide approach to archiving, will the volume of data youe taking off the primary store, make a real difference in terms of energy savings, said ...