Not to mention HIPPA/HIPAA compliance issues could factor into this, even if there is allegedly no "personally identifiable patient information" on there. If anything, I'd wipe and reinstall the O/S and apps from scratch before letting the user take it out of the country just to be doubly sure that there is no patient information on there. And as part of that, I'd make sure there is a darn good antivirus/anti-malware/anti-spyware suite on there as well as a strong firewall.
John-AldrichTile-Tools From: Bart Vandyck [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, February 05, 2010 2:09 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Taking a Tablet PC out of the country I would think this should be a company/Hospital policy question. If the policy does not allow it with or without certain conditions, bring it to the attention of the management that this question has come up. Because, as other replies have stated, there can be insurance issues, confidentiality issue's, HR rules,.... So communicate the question, and give you're advice to the management. A reason I might see against it is the following. If it is not common practice to take devices out of the country/company, does it have an secure internet connection? Is Anti-virus setup so that it will still update during his trip. Will he receive patches? Is there firewall running on the machine (who knows what ISP, free wireless connection he will be connecting to)... If this is a one-time ad-hoc take out of the device, I would advice against it. rgds, Bart On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 10:21 PM, Raper, Jonathan - Eagle <[email protected]> wrote: I have a physician who wants to take a company owned Tablet PC to Argentina in a month or so. This doesn't give me a warm fuzzy, but I don't have anything concrete to give as a reason to tell him no, aside from that. I have a hard enough time with docs wanting to take the Tablets out of the office to their homes. Do any of you have any good information on reasons that I can give that it wouldn't be a good idea? There should not be any data on the system, as he will be using Xen to get access to all of our systems using domain credentials, so data theft is not a big concern in this particular case. Thanks in advance, Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE Technology Coordinator Eagle Physicians & Associates, PA [email protected] www.eaglemds.com _____ Any medical information contained in this electronic message is CONFIDENTIAL and privileged. It is unlawful for unauthorized persons to view, copy, disclose, or disseminate CONFIDENTIAL information. This electronic message may contain information that is confidential and/or legally privileged. It is intended only for the use of the individual(s) and/or entity named as recipients in the message. If you are not an intended recipient of this message, please notify the sender immediately and delete this material from your computer. Do not deliver, distribute or copy this message, and do not disclose its contents or take any action in reliance on the information that it contains. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
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