A London hospital has found a solution to the seemingly
incompatible aims of widely available
patient records and watertight security.
Kings College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (KCH) has chosen
Promisec's
Spectator Professional to secure its internal network of over
3000 endpoints.
KCH has one of the biggest catchment areas in London, with
700,000 residents of Lambeth and Southwark viewing it as their
local hospital. As a teaching hospital, it plays a pivotal role in
the education and training of medical, nursing and dental
students.
Widespread adoption of electronic patient records was never
going to be easy, since end-users were demanding more access, while
the compliance department identified multiple security risks.
The safest way of implementing a system was to adopt a
clientless approach, explained Derek Farlow, the hospital's ICT
security manager yesterday. "You need to see what is going on at
the end points, and to be able to control the network," he said. On
his recommendation, the hospital ordered supplier Promisec to
provide the layered approach to internal security and to keep it
compliant over security policies and software licensing.
"Promisec Spectator's clientless approach [should] make
deployment quick and easy, and the software's versatility enables
us to secure our endpoints simply," said Farlow.
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