February 28, 2012 | Mary Mosquera, Contributing Editor WASHINGTON – The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT released Feb. 24 its proposed rule for the certification of electronic health record systems. Under the proposed rule, vendors must make sure their electronic health records support functions, such as providing patients online access to their [...]
Tech Republic picks the 10 worst Web design tragedies. Spooky sound effects. L-o-o-ong pages where you can spend several minutes scrolling down before reaching bottom. Hundreds of postage stamp-sized images. Mysterious moving balls that users must click on to gain any information. If your website’s homepage has one or more of the above…well, it’s not [...]
Evan KoblentzContactAll Articles Law Technology News February 22, 2012 A new federal cybersecurity research laboratory, announced almost two years ago, has recently received funding and will begin its mission to foster government and commercial technology-sharing in the never-ending challenge of safeguarding data. The National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence will be operated by the National Institute [...]
By Christina DesMarais, PCWorld Feb 19, 2012 2:35 PM Heard the one about the FBI shutting down the Internet next month? Like many memes before it, this dire warning is floating around blogs and sites. It even names a date: March 8 as the day the FBI might “shut down the Internet.” But relax, [...]
John Edwards ContactAll Articles Law Technology News A few years ago, digital projectors were rarely seen courtroom presentation accessories. No longer. As prices have fallen, the technology has become more widely adopted. These days, the biggest challenge facing a lawyer searching for a projector is selecting the right model. As with most other computer products, [...]
Evan Koblentz ContactAll Articles Law Technology News February 15, 2012 Congress this week will be introduced to the Cybersecurity Act of 2012, which aims to protect crucial American computer infrastructure by giving oversight to the Department of Homeland Security. Experts say it’s possible that large law firms and corporate legal departments could be impacted and [...]
Jeffrey Rabkin All Articles The Recorder February 14, 2012 Welcome to 2012: Cybercrime is on the rise, and if data breaches, theft of proprietary information, hacking, and malware incidents cannot yet be said to have become routine, they can hardly be considered unexpected. These problems are driven by exponential advances in computer technology, the explosion [...]
by Marilyn J. Heine, MD | in Tech | Paul Conslato, MD, director of clinical affairs for Lancaster General Medical Group, recently was quoted in the PAMED Better Health Network eZine that the introduction of electronic health records is “the largest transformational event for physicians within the last 50 years.” Fifty years is a long [...]
Kenneth Jones ContactAll Articles Law Technology News January 30, 2012 On a frigid Tuesday night in Newark, the score is knotted at two. As the clock ticks past the five-minute mark in the third and final period, New Jersey Devils star Zach Parise suddenly finds himself flying down the left wing with the puck on [...]
Anne Kershaw All Articles Law Technology News February 9, 2012 Legacy data (backup tapes, file shares, personal storage tables, and other storage media) when kept indefinitely has no value or purpose. But it can create expensive havoc and costs that can be avoided if the data is properly managed — and destroyed when business and [...]