The local hospital in town, that is also the employer of my two
partners, has a Cisco wireless system in place, and has had since before
we were in business. SSID is turned on, DHCP is turned off, and
encryption is turned on. (WEP 128bit I think)
Recently, they went through an audit by an independent security agency,
and while they did find some problems with insecure user passwords, the
wireless lan was found to be fully HIPPA safe. Doctors use the wireless
on their laptops to do their thing in the hospital, and it all seems to
work fine.
Pete Davis
NoDial.net
John Scrivner wrote:
I need your help! It looks like I am going to have to go over the head
of the IT guy at the area hospitals. According to the person I am
speaking with I cannot even get a phone call returned from him to talk
about the issues regarding wireless broadband delivery and HIPAA. The
say flat out no use of wireless for connectivity to area health care
centers.
Can some of you please send me some success stories offlist where you
installed connections to health care facilities for them to use as their
intranet connections? Any references to working with their IT people to
deliver a solution that met HIPAA guidelines would be nice. Once I get
some of those success stories I will request a meeting with the CEO of
the hospital who is a friend of mine and can help us get this done.
Thanks guys,
Scriv
PS. Offlist your success stories to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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