On the 9th September the New York Times featured an article entitled “Patient Data Posted Online in Major Breach of Privacy” (source: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/09/us/09breach.html?_r=1) in which it documented the unfortunate exposure of private patient information including “The spreadsheet included names, diagnosis codes, account numbers, admission and discharge dates, and billing charges for patients seen at Stanford
Hospital’s emergency room during a six-month period in 2009”. If they had employed infrastructure services such as Rights Management (ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rights_Management_Services) on the spreadsheet, within the organization, this breech may have been minimized or even avoided altogether.

As the current landscape of cloud, data mobility and mobile [consumer-focused] computing unfolds - just how secure is the connected infrastructure used by our doctors and nurses?