Hospitals have long relied on the trusty pager to alert doctors to an emergency. But the technology now looks embarrassingly primitive in the age of the multimedia smartphone.

So some healthcare start-ups are looking at ways to improve how doctors and nurses communicate, care for patients and manage treatments.

As Imprivata’s VP of Worldwide Engineering, Cyber, Joel Burleson-Davis is responsible for overseeing teams in the organization that build and deliver cybersecurity solutions. Prior to joining Imprivata, he was an engineering manager in Sydney, Australia for 6 years. He holds a master’s degree in liberal arts from St. Edward’s University where his focus was on philosophy and behavioral sciences applied to technology.

If you work in the cybersecurity field, or if you’ve ever worked from home, you’re probably pretty familiar with a virtual private network, or as we all know them, a VPN. VPNs offer a method of secure remote access connection between users and a private corporate network.

In other words, it gives you the access you need to files (or anything else) that are found locally on a server, but from the comfort of your home (or airport, coffee shop, or anywhere in between).