American storage giant Iron Mountain has announced two Australian acquisitions in the one week, beginning with records storage firm The Document Centre (TDC) in Launceston for an undisclosed sum and following up with the $2.5 billion buyout of multinational Recall Holdings.
Data breaches have very quickly climbed the information security agenda and that includes the data breach threat posed by employees and IT professionals. Now a new report says the insider problem is far worse than we had previously imagined. The Verizon Data Breach investigations report claims that 14% of breaches are due to insiders and that’s not counting the further 12% of breaches that come from IT itself.
Some interesting insights have emerged from a large-scale study of email usage undertaken by Yahoo which looked at the habits of more than 2 million users exchanging 16 billion emails over several months.
The healthcare industry faces numerous challenges today. These include rapidly changing regulatory reporting requirements, financial constraints and demand for higher quality of care. Most hospitals have heavily invested in their core applications such as Patient Administration Systems (PAS), Clinical applications (EMR/EHR), Radiology (PACS) and billing systems. However these systems are usually database-driven, isolated repositories located far away from the systems of engagement that are essential for today’s high quality care delivery.
Dell Software has announced findings of a survey of database deployments showing that while unstructured data types and new database management systems play an increasing role in the modern data ecosystem, structured data in relational database management systems (RDBMS) remains the foundation of the information infrastructure in most companies. Although advancements in the ability to capture, store, retrieve and analyse new forms of unstructured data have garnered significant attention, the Dell survey indicates that most organisations continue to focus primarily on managing structured data, and will do so for the foreseeable future.
IBM and Fujifilm have demonstrated a next generation tape storage system that can fit 220TB of data on a palm-sized tape, showing its viability as a long-term storage medium.
The Asia Pacific (APAC) region is the fastest growing healthcare information technology (healthcare IT) market across the world. Within APAC, after Japan, Australia is the second largest market for health technology adoption.
Knowledgeone Corporation has announced a new North American distribution partnership for its RecFind 6 EDRMS with the International Systems Dealers Association (ISDA) headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA and with 82 members across the USA and Canada.
Bendigo Health in Victoria has signed up to implement a customised Digital Medical Record using the Vitro platform from Ireland’s Sláinte Healthcare. The Digital Medical Record system will deliver images and patient information electronically and will work with other, existing, Bendigo Health systems such as the patient administration system, and will be able to generate reports.
A $US1.4 million mobile capture platform from Kofax is being implemented by a Top 25 global bank to simplify and streamline account openings in the Asia Pacific region.
