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Thursday, March 31, 2005

Pointsec Encryption for PDAs

Filed under: Informatics , Military Medicine

Pointsec for Pocket PCPointsec, an Illinois company, reports that the US Army's Medical Communications for Combat Casualty Care (MC4) unit will use the firm's endpoint security solution on medical teams' PDAs. The company has developed FIPS-certified encryption software for PDAs.

From the press release:

MC4 will work with Insight Public Sector, a leading provider of IT products and services for federal governmental divisions and agencies, including the United States Army, to deploy over 11,000 Windows Mobile-based HP Pocket PC handheld devices with Pointsec for Pocket PC encryption technology to its highly-trained medical staff. These devices will be used by Army medical professionals all over the world, especially in the combat situations in Iraq and Afghanistan.

With mobile medical teams treating soldiers in hostile environments, patient information must be readily available, easily transferable to treatment centers and absolutely secure. After fierce competition and successful field trials, the Army is now deploying Pointsec for Pocket PC across the board, driven in part by Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) requirements.

MC4's mission is to eliminate unreliable paper-based systems and replace them with an automated medical digitization system for soldier care. MC4 is taking the technology of telemedicine and other existing automation systems in medical and support facilities and integrating for combat support. MC4 links healthcare providers, medical diagnostic systems, information command and control, and medical command and control systems at all echelons.

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In 2001 I bought a Compaq iPAQ with Windows mobile. After it crashed a few dozen times, wiping all my data AND the address data in my Outlook, I switched to a Sony Clie, which uses Palm OS and Desktop software. I have not had a single crash ever since.

Now, I'm sure that the latest Windows mobile OS are more stable, but if I remember correctly, they are not reverse compatible with each preceeding generation, as is Palm OS, which means that eventual OS updates will require hardware replacement. What's the generational lifetime of these gadgets before they become obsolete and some congressman demands to know why we don't equip our guys with the latest and greatest? 2-3 years?

I guess Microsoft and HP put some congressional muscle into action to get their foot in the door, because everyone knows Palm OS is more stable than Win Mobile and would have provided a better platform for critical applications.


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on March 31, 2005 10:25 AM GMT

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Pointsec Encryption for PDAs


Posted by: FEMI BOLA
on June 16, 2005 01:22 PM GMT