ADVANCE Perspective: HIT : August 2008

Homeland Security Phone System Hacked August 22, 2008 9:21 AM by Bob Mitchell: A recent report by the Associated Press caught my attention. The story is about how the phones at FEMA, part of Homeland Security were hacked because a contractor had left what open a "hole" when the voice mail system was upgraded. I did a Google search Read More...
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Summer Olympics August 11, 2008 4:11 PM by Jim Boyle: The Olympics get major play around the Boyle household. Every two years we nestle up on the couch each night and root for the Americans in each sport. (Whoever came up with the idea to stagger the Winter and Summer Olympics deserves a Nobel or something. Read More...
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Putting Facebook to Work August 5, 2008 2:10 PM by Frank Irving: I put out a call to some "early adopters" of Facebook here at Merion Publications to ask how the social networking tool helps them do their jobs. Some recent examples: Through the Facebook page for one of our company's nursing publications, a wound-care Read More...
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Call for New Technology Photos August 4, 2008 6:31 PM by Frank Irving: We're setting up a space on our Web site to showcase photos of new IT equipment at health care facilities and practices across the country. Have an impressive bank of new servers that you'd like to show off? How about a newly organized cabling closet? Read More...
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