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Open Your World recap: Dr. John Halamka on healthcare, the stimulus, and standards
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| Dr. John D. Halamka, is Chief Information
| Officer of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical
| Center, a practicing emergency physician, and
| holds several other positions, which are
| listed on his profile at his Geek Doctor
| blog. According to Halamka, his datacenter
| âholds a couple of petabytes of healthcare
| data for 3 million patients, and the entire
| infrastructure is run on Red Hat
| technologies. So I have multiple datacenters,
| multiple clusters of Linux servers, and we
| haven't had downtime in a couple of years. I
| think the answer today is, no CIO in
| healthcare is afraid of open source.â
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http://opensource.com/life/10/6/open-your-world-recap-dr-john-halamka-healthcare-stimulus-and-standards
Recent:
Another NHS hospital stricken with Conficker virus
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| Computer systems at the West Middlesex
| University Hospital NHS Trust were infected by
| the worm last Friday, leaving hospital staff
| unable to book appointments via computer. The
| outbreak has been contained but some hospital IT
| systems remain unavailable, resulting in ongoing
| delays to patients and affecting the smooth
| running of the medical facility.
|
| A hospital spokeswoman told El Reg that the
| malware infection, identified as the Conficker-
| A, struck on Friday afternoon. "Most of the
| computers had to be cleaned, so we've had to
| rely on a pen and paper system to book
| appointments. Technicians worked over the
| weekend to clean up systems. Priority systems
| are running but the clean-up is likely to last
| until the end of the week."
|
| [...]
|
| The hospital has 400 beds and employs 1,900
| staff to serve the needs of 400,000 residents in
| the London boroughs of Hounslow and Richmond-
| upon-Thames.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02/18/conficker_nhs/
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