Ottawa Hospital Orders 1,800 iPad 2s

[GlenL]

So my IT dept says the only reason thy can do this is that "they don't have HIPAA in Canada" and that the iPad (and iPhones as I want to have mine on the exchange server) are a risk to that. Anyone able to succinctly refute that?

Not sure if you work for a hospital or what, but there are some hospital systems in the US that access their EMR through an iPad Citrix connection.

 

[BigTex71]

That is why we use an IPSec connection to our VPN for the iPads. They can securely log in and access the terminal servers via RDP (similar to using the Citrix connection quoted below.)

Not sure if you work for a hospital or what, but there are some hospital systems in the US that access their EMR through an iPad Citrix connection.

Both are acceptable, considering proper security policies are in place.

 

[incapete]

And by August there'll be 1800 happier/richer patients who've managed to walk out with them...!

Forget data security, how are they securing the ipads themselves?

 

[Kaykaykay]

And by August there'll be 1800 happier/richer patients who've managed to walk out with them...!

Forget data security, how are they securing the ipads themselves?

I'm guessing that they have security of some sort that works, or the first 500 iPads that they've already been using would've disappeared.

 

[maliu]

So my IT dept says the only reason thy can do this is that "they don't have HIPAA in Canada" and that the iPad (and iPhones as I want to have mine on the exchange server) are a risk to that. Anyone able to succinctly refute that?

Yes, a simple google search shows that Canada indeed has laws very similar to HIPAA.

 

[bettafan]

Try Best Buy for you iPad 2 if you are in the USA. I placed my order with the online Apple store and called my local Best Buy store every day right after opening. Took less than a week at Best Buy. After I got mine from Best Buy, I cancelled my online order.

 

[nursedude]

Meditech is a company that is well known in healthcare circles as providing a variety of EMR software modules. Here's a link to a blog that shows what one place is doing:
Fauquier ENT Blog: New Video Produced on Using MediTech EMR on the iPad!

In my Informatics department we'd love to see the iPad used by clinicians...