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11-Hospital Health System Manages Growing Fleet of Laptops

Overview As a leading healthcare provider with a state-of-the-art electronic health record system, Allina Hospitals & Clinics required a way to protect its rapidly growing laptop population from computer theft and potential data breach.

Find out how the hospital system deployed Computrace asset tracking to monitor 2,700 laptops on and off its network and enhance IT asset auditing capability from 30% to well over 95%.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	Absolute Software	File Format	PDF
Date Published	March 2008	Downloads	1
Format	Case Studies
Topics	Back-Office, Asset Management, Laptops, Mobile - Wireless Communications, Security Management, HIPAA

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The information commissioner also censured North West London Hospitals NHS Trust following the theft of two unencrypted laptops and a desktop during a period when Central Middlesex Hospital's security swipe-card system was disabled for maintenance.

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Public Sector
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nhs,
breach,
data,
ico

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