Just out of curiosity for those that have tried it... As an application, could the VPM be used as a patient's EHR in and of itself? Being OS independent, this would seem to resolve much of the portability issues. It would be handy to have a memory stick on my key chain and present my records to the caregiver's receptionist when I arrive (or have it in my pocket in an emergency...)
Paul Sherman Biomedical Engineer VA CEOSH St. Louis, MO -----Original Message----- From: Tim Churches [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Virtual Privacy Machine From: GPCG Talk List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Horst Herb > Sent: Friday, 22 October 2004 9:53 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [GPCG_TALK] Virtual Privacy Machine > > The seems to resolve many of our security problems arising from > inadequate choices of software and operating system: > http://pvpm.metropipe.net/ > ... Yes, this is extremely clever and extremely interesting. The innovative part is that it does not require you to reboot the computer into which you plug the USB memory stick. Instead, it loads a CPU emulator (they use QEMU) under the currently running operating system - Windows or Linux - and then boots a completely separate Linux operating system inside the emulator. This emulated Linux environment is configured to only store data on the USB memory stick, so there is no danger of inadvertently leaving security-sensitive data on the host machine which may be your computer, or it may be someone else's computer. ... Tim C
