Denver Health Operation with a Private Cloud and thin Clients

Q1: Privacy laws and regulations require medical facilities to take measurable steps to ensure the confidentiality of patient information. From this case study, can you tell what Denver Health has done to ensure the confidentiality of its patient information?

1) The patient information is store in a private Cloud and is not accessible by public.

2) Only authorize people with thin client can log into the private Cloud.
3) The thin client is being password encrypted.

Q2: Think about your school. How could it use the ThinIdentity solution to support the technology needs of (1) faculty and (2) students such as yourself?

The school can benchmark the ThinIdentity solution into its Information system. School will store student data in a private cloud and only those with thin client have the access to the private cloud and each thin client can only access to personal information. The person with thin client can add data to the private cloud and store it safely.

Q3: In Thinking about cloud computing (Focusing on the public cloud), what role it play in business continuity planning for Denver Health? That is, how could the public cloud act as a backup for Denver Health’s private cloud?

Denver Health could store same copy of data in their private cloud into the public cloud. If the data in private cloud is missing, Denver health could recover it from public cloud. It is just same theory of storing data into another hard disk.

Q4: If Denver Health were to give each patient a smart card, log-on name, and password, which functions, features, and information could benefit patients? What security would have to be in place to ensure that patient have access to only their own information?

Each of every patient shall have a unique matrix in order to control their power of excess. There will need to have several tier protection to ensure that patient have access to only their own information. Denver Health could also put a lot of server as the protection of the data and each patient can only log on into certain server.

Q5: How could Denver Health extend the ThinIdentity solution beyond its brick-and-mortar walls? How would it work (ie, need to change) to have doctors and nurses log on from home or use a mobile device such as a Blackberry or iphone?

Denver Health could make it server being connect by other user other then those connected by using Web server. First the Denver Health server have to connect online and then the doctor Blackberry or iphone could connected with the server thru online.