During HIMSS 2016, I had the opportunity to talk to one of the true leaders in healthcare technology, Craig Richardville, Carolinas HealthCare Systems’ Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer who was recently named CIO of the Year by CHIME and HIMSS. Craig discuses a range of topics including interoperability and security challenges in healthcare, the government’s patient identification efforts, and Carolinas Healthcare Systems’ use of the palm vein biometric patient identity platform, Imprivata PatientSecure.
Ever the risk-averse industry, healthcare is finally beginning to trust cloud for the storage of protected health information. Experts credit better cloud security, dropping costs and the growing need for disparate organizations to share information. What's more, this only appears to be the tip of the healthcare cloud iceberg.
Cisco offers an industry-leading portfolio of technology innovations. With networking, security, collaboration, cloud management, and more, we help to securely connect industries and communities.
CISTEC develops and operates the hospital information system KISIM. KISIM supports the daily work of doctors, nurses and other specialists in Swiss hospitals. CISTEC's client base ranges from the regional hospital to the university hospital, from the public office of the chief medical officer to the private staff hospital and from psychiatry to rehabilitation.
Citrix Systems, Inc. is a leading provider of virtual computing solutions that help companies deliver IT as an on-demand service. Citrix solutions can help healthcare organizations modernize IT to improve the quality of patient care and secure patient information while making it more accessible to care providers. Citrix technology helps healthcare organizations to improve mobility throughout their organizations, improve customer service, lower total cost of IT operations, and increase security, regulatory compliance and overall patient confidentiality.
Unicon, part of Citrix, ensures clinicians can access virtual desktops and patient data instantly and securely — without delays or complex logins. With 30+ years of experience and over 2 million endpoints deployed globally, Unicon serves organizations that handle sensitive data, including healthcare, banking, and the public sector — from small clinics to large hospitals.
In 2024, the FBI released two major updates to the Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Security Policy, raising the bar for data protection. Version 5.9.5 required multifactor authentication (MFA) for all access to criminal justice data, while Version 6.0 expanded oversight to include continuous monitoring and third-party risk management.