Wednesday, May 5, 2010

IT News HeadLines (AOA - Alliance of Overclocking Arts) 05/05/2010



Healthcare Not Up To Task Of Securing Electronic Medical Records, Experts Say

From Dark Reading


Healthcare organizations with established databases are typically behind other industries in how they secure their data stores

As healthcare organizations work to earn the incentives dangled in front of them by the HITECH Act, the adoption of electronic medical records (EMR) has accelerated. But at the same time, healthcare fraud has also risen, and experts say if organizations don't effectively address data and database protection in healthcare's transition from paper to digital record-keeping, the threats to patient confidentiality and organizational security will skyrocket.


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Adobe Launching Flash For Android

From Information Week

The announcement came on the heels of Apple's letter defending its ban on Flash for the iPhone and iPad.

Adobe, which has stopped developing its ubiquitous Flash multimedia player for the Apple iPhone, says it will release in June a new version of the software for competing smartphones running Google's Android operating system.


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