Supporting Valour-IT Day 8

So I am looking through the list of supporters for Team Navy, you know, pretending like I'm actually leading this fleet. For the record, I'm not, Boston Maggie is doing all of the work and I'm doing everything the Queen of the Sea tells me to.

As I'm scouting the list and reading various blogs I know little about, I came across this Health Information Systems site that focuses on Healthcare IT news and opinion. I have intentionally avoided talking about my work, and by contract terms I can't give details anyway, but I do have a ton of experience with Health IT software, including being the nerd who figured out how to run a bunch of McKesson and Cerner products in Citrix back when those companies were run by idiots who had never heard of Citrix. Actually, Cerner is still run by technical dipshits without a clue, at least I've never met an onsite tech from Cerner who knew how their own product worked on a technical level, although they are wizards with the software itself.

Even if you aren't in Healthcare IT, but you are just an IT dude, this is a really cool website and I added it to my RSS feed,. HIPAA has made health IT more complicated than it has to be, mostly because IT folks are taking tips from attorney's whose technical understanding is limited. Protect data? Most health care offices are wireless now, and if you look over their shoulder at the laptop, most don't use SSL and rely on WEP keys or whatever security is built into router based technologies. In my experience, security in healthcare is like security in most small businesses, I like to call it security through obsecurity. The hospitals do a better job than the clinics, well, the private hospitals do.

Anyway, I wanted to shout out a thanks to HISTalk for supporting Team Navy in Valour-IT. We need everyones support to reach our goal this year, add your donation here.