Medical records belonging to over 8,000 patients of a doctors surgery in Magherafelt, Co Derry, have gone missing. The incident occurred when the surgery sent a tape cartridge containing medical data to an IT firm based in London using a courier company. The cartridge tape was collected in December by the courier but it was reported that it failed to arrive. You can read more about the incident here and here.
When I regularly speak with GP’s about medical data on their computer systems they all share the same concern, losing the data to an outside source. The doctors surgery in Magherafelt most likely shared that concern and had taken precaution by ensuring the data tape had some sort of security protection. A GP from the surgery is quoted saying:
“The computer tape is security protected and requires a specialist programme which is normally only used by GPs and the data verification company in order to make any sense of the information on the tape“.
This sounds as if the medical data was encrypted but there again data encryption was not mentioned in any news articles which could be worrying for some.
If you are a GP or work in a doctors surgery does your practice have adequate data protection for medical records?
If you are Mac user then you are probably well aware of the Macworld exhibition that just recently passed. A lot of companies were in attendance announcing all sorts of new product releases for Mac users, including our partner Iron Mountain Digital.
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C Infinity – Ireland’s top secure online backup and hosted managed services provider are pleased to announce that the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland (ICAI) have chosen C Infinity online backup for their Affinity Program. All ICAI members will get a 20% Discount on their online backup.
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I was pleased to announce that Technical Ideas have joined C Infinity in our partner program. Technical Ideas develop and distribute Socrates which uses the latest .NET technology and have clients all over Ireland.
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C Infinity has chosen Redstone Technology as their hardware services provider for the latest phase of their managed server hosting infrastructure.
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C Infinity is a member of Microsoft’s new BizSpark program to assist new start-ups with attaining an online presence. This program is designed to accelerate the success of these ventures.
As a partner in this program C Infinity will offer:
- Sponsorship to enter the program to qualifying companies.
- Hosting services for the solution.
The start-up will get:
- Software: You will get the development environment and your production licenses for immediate use with no up front costs.
- Support: You will get support for your technical solution through the MSDN service.
- Visibility: As a member of the program you will be visible to a global listing of potential clients, partners and investors.
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Computing giant HP has struck a deal worth €500,000 to equip business outsourcing firm C Infinity with high-end blade-server technology.
The deal was completed via HP’s channel partner Redstone.
The deal will allow C Infinity to make the full range of HP enterprise-class server features available to companies of any size, and in particular off-site storage.
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Aidan Finn was awarded with the “Most Valuable Professional” status by Microsoft on 1st July, 2008. He was given MVP status for his work on promoting and assisting others with Microsoft’s System Center Configuration Manager, a flagship product in Microsoft’s network management product catalog.
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Ireland’s small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) are exposed to increasingly high risks due to inadequate and unreliable backup of computer data. This was stated by Caitríona Lynch, managing director of C Infinity at the launch of LiveVault, a secure online backup and recovery solution aimed specifically at SMEs.
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Small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Ireland have been warned of the risk associated with unreliable computer backup technology by backup solutions provider C Infinity managing director Caitriona Lynch.
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