Well, not quite, but as a physicist working on the grand unified theory would say: The arrows are pointing into the right direction. While patient care is not delivered virtually quite yet, the experts in the field of Health Information Management and Systems will have their annual gathering in Atlanta in early March (http://www.himss.org) to ensure we’ll get there in the future. If you haven’t... (more...)
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) contains a whole chapter called HITECH. This catchy acronym stands for Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health and makes you wonder if “they” construct the acronym before deciding on what information to convey. It basically mandates a number of fairly stringent disclosure requirements for HIPAA covered entities... (more...)
While most discussions on successful Electronic Medical Record (EMR) implementation and adoption circle around the proper implementation of clinical workflows, standard order sets, diagnostic codes, and the all important CPOE (Computerized Provider Order Entry), little time is spent on thinking about how the applications actually make it to the users. I have talked to CMIOs this week at HIMSS who... (more...)
I’m debugging a good one lately, Discretionary Access Control List (DACL) programming with Citrix App Streaming. Recall from a previous post that Citrix App Streaming dynamically adjusts user access rights for the execution cache as a function of running applications in sandbox and as a function of terminating application isolation spaces. This is very cool stuff – but it is... (more...)
If you have read some of my recent blogs, you know that I have been spending time testing XenDesktop 4 and Microsoft Windows 2008 R2 Hyper-V. I thought I would take a moment and highlight the top seven things I have learned during this testing. Some of these items I briefly mentioned in my previous blog Optimizing Windows 7 for FlexCast Delivery posted a few weeks ago. 1. Use Fixed-Size VHDs for the... (more...)
Citrix Support is focused on ensuring Customer and Partner satisfaction with our products. One of our initiatives is to increase the ability of our Partners and Customers to leverage self-service avenues via our Knowledge Center. Find below the Citrix Knowledge Center Top 10 for February 2010. Top 10 Technical Articles Article Number Article Title CTX711855 Common SSL Error Messages, and... (more...)
Choosing a thin client OS for your desktop virtualization deployment can be tricky. Windows embedded thin clients offer the latest features, but they cost more and have additional security implications and maintenance compared to Linux based thin clients. Wyse ThinOS clients are often easier to secure and manage than Linux clients, but often lag in features. This has changed... (more...)
Cloud computing challenges many long-standing paradigms of the PC computer era. In my last post, I discussed the technical challenges facing the OVF standard in virtual system portability. Even if we assume that OVF will overcome the technical barriers, an even larger one looms: licensing. The dominant licensing model for PC software over the last 25 years centers on hardware systems. Whether a vendor... (more...)
Total power often leads to corruption. No, I’m not talking about business or politics. I’m talking about desktops. Have you been in a meeting where people talk about giving users admin rights to workstations. I have two words for you… Be afraid… Be very afraid… OK that was 5 words, but the point is clear. Be afraid. Many of the challenges with the traditional,... (more...)
