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"We started looking at BYOD about three years ago. We had a lot of people bringing in mobile devices and, actually, our CEO came in with his iPad one day and asked to be hooked up to our network. That was kind of the writing on the wall for us," 

New Citrix ShareFile Cloud aids HIPAA compliance. Also VMware, Inc. announced last week that healthcare customers will be able to receive third-party HIPAA assessments for VMware vCloud Hybrid Service to ensure that its security controls meet HIPAA standards. VMware also announced that it is now providing HIPAA business associate agreements (BAAs) to customers.

Bremen, 29. August  2013 - Thin Clients des deutschen Marktführers IGEL Technology unterstützen zukünftig die Sicherheitslösung OneSign ProveID Embedded von Imprivata. Die Software bietet Anwendern im Gesundheitswesen sichere klinische Authentifizierung mit No Click Access innerhalb virtueller Desktop-Infrastrukturen (VDI). Da die Softwarelösung direkt in die Firmware der IGEL Thin Clients integriert ist, ermöglicht Imprivatas OneSign ProveID eine leistungsstarke vorinstallierte Anwenderauthentifizierung für den schnellen und sicheren Zugriff auf klinische Applikationen und kritische Patienteninformationen. Zunächst wird OneSign ProveID Embedded für den System-on-a-Chip Thin Client IGEL UD2-LX MultiMedia zur Verfügung stehen. Für die Zukunft ist die Integration auch für x86-basierte Geräte aus dem IGEL Portfolio geplant.

BOISE, ID, August 30, 2013 /24-7PressRelease/ -- HealthCast, Inc., a leading provider of enhanced logical sign-on solutions for healthcare and other industries, announced support for its software solutions on the new HP t820 Flexible Series Thin Client introduced this week . The HP t820 with WES 7 or 8 operating systems pre-installed introduces a new high-performance thin client to the HP portfolio that can also support applications running locally. 

London,June 25th , 2013 - Praim and Imprivata® today announced that St. George's Healthcare NHS Trust, one of the largest healthcare providers in southwest London, is using the Praim Compact Dual Core C9010 integrated with Imprivata OneSign® to optimize its virtual computing environment. The combined solution enables St. George's to provide clinicians with fast, secure access to patient information to increase workflow efficiency, improve productivity and enhance patient care. 

IBM Healthcare presentation with VMware by David Bellamy at HIMSS 2011

San Jose, Calif. – February 22, 2011 – Wyse Technology, the global leader in cloud client computing, is demonstrating innovative IT solutions for the healthcare industry in Orlando, Florida this week at HIMSS11, one of the world's leading healthcare IT events.

Wyse at HIMSS in Orlando displaying ultra low cost & green cloud computing solutions for Healthcare.

Many electronic health records (EHR) application vendors are providing “cloud-like” solutions such as application hosting or software-as-a-service (SaaS) models.

The business case for the iPad may be nowhere as clear as it is in healthcare, a multi-billion dollar industry and one of the world's largest consumers of information technology.

News release on thin client demo at HIMSS SHow in Atlanta. Huge medical show and it is a natural market for thin client technology.

Wyse Technology, the global leader in thin computing and client virtualization, today announced another successful customer implementation. Metro Health Village, located near Grand Rapids, Michigan, is one of the most comprehensive health care providers in west Michigan.

Thinclient casestudy in EHR market - As you can see below, they have "… saved close to $500,000 yearly by reducing the amount of IT staff required to support our business; we've cut our electricity usage by more than 50% throughout the organization; our new device provisioning costs are half of what PCs would require; and we anticipate an annual savings of $1.26 million by reducing maintenance costs. All of this and the virtual clients will last much longer than PCs."

READING, UK - (HealthTech Wire / News) - Fast and secure access to patient files whilst on the move will be just one of the benefits IGEL Technology will be demonstrating using thin clients at Smart Healthcare Live in Earls Court, London, from June 9-10.

Ideas International has been a big proponent of thin client desktop computing in recent years. By moving the computing, applications, and data storage from the desktop to the IT department, a number of benefits can be gained, including higher levels of security, lower carbon emissions, lower cost, more efficient utilization of resources, and faster recovery from failures.