Whats changed in the push toward electronic medical records? Has the security threat changed?
Whiteside: The threat is at least as large as it was. It may have grown larger because of all the attention paid to electronic medical records, which breeds a lot more interest from people doing the bad things. But since last year there also has been a lot more conversation and policy and more things written up to help people understand what the requirements are. They aren’t quite standards, but there have been standards-type documents to help understand what the different data sets are, what’s important and what’s not important. The big piece of making all of this stuff electronic has been the classification of it. It will need to be protected in different ways as this stuff begins to grow. In the commercial world, the big buzz right now is cloud computing. Does that apply to medical records? It’s more confined to the commercial space. In the medical records world there is some of that, but it’s being done very sparingly with very small subsets of data. It’s not the entire patient rec
