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How important is the personal data privacy. Often we have no qualms giving our personal details to sign up for a new membership program, or to renew our subscription to a favorite paper. But the recent controversy surrounding the sale of 1.97 million customer records by Octopus Card in Hong Kong, and the public outcry following it, reminds us that data privacy is still a sensitive issue for government, politicians, businesses and the general public.
The Hong Kong Sanatorium & Hospital is one of the most modern hospitals in Hong Kong catering to the affluent population of the SAR. As part of its efforts to ensure the best possible care for its patient, the HKSH recently introduced a new patient care system called IE Buddy. Dr. Joseph Chan, Deputy Medical Superintendent and Head of Dept of Women's Health & Obstetrics, discusses the role of IE Buddy in ensuring the highest levels of patient care at the hospital.
Expanding populations and added responsibilities are forcing state and local agencies to run themselves more like a business. Governments also find they face the same challenges when it comes from preventing employee Web abuse and defending against emerging Internet threats. This white paper describes those challenges in detail and where to begin in overcoming those challenges.
Rising demand for medical care are overwhelming health services and governments resulting in more time being spent on managing than treating. Critical to easing this new management burden is the creation of systems that facilitate information exchange. This paper looks at the development of electronic personal health records and the challenges it poses to all members of the ecosystem.
Partners Healthcare Systems prescribes high-performance medicine to its hospitals and other healthcare organizations. It deployed Web services to support diverse applications, including up-to-the minute emergency room patient data, a physician paging system, and data integration within electronic medical records (EMR).
When Sri Lanka's Department of Education wanted to update its certificate printing process and hardware, security was at the top of its requirements. The aim is to eliminate fraudulent examination certificate results. The solution provided needed to be easy-to-use, compatible with the existing information in the DOE database and have the ability to create certificates bilingual in English and Sinhalese. This case study explains why the DOE selected the Lexmark Ultra Violet (UV) Secure Print solution.

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