Silicon.com: Security firm Entrusted with sensitive patient data

[Owen Blacker]

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> HEADLINE: Security firm Entrusted with sensitive patient data
> PUBLISHED: 5:54pm on Tuesday 20th March 2001
> CHANNEL: Ebusiness security
> AUTHOR: Chris Holbrook
> SERVICE: http://www.silicon.com
> 
> TEXT OF STORY FOLLOWS:
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> Entrust Technologies has signed a deal that will see the 
> security specialist use messaging technology for sending 
> pathology test results.
> 
> The firm is to use PKI and data-stamping security to protect 
> patient confidentiality when transferring records from 
> pathology labs to GP practices.
> 
> Initially, 13 laboratories will use the scheme, which aims to 
> offer a quicker return of test results for diagnosis. A 
> further 187 are to be connected by the end of the nationwide
> roll-out.  
> 
> Andrew Armstrong, VP northern Europe for Entrust, said: "The 
> NHS is implementing electronic messaging at a time when 
> professional concerns surrounding the confidentiality of 
> patient information are at an all-time high."
> 
> Steve Walker, the project connect programme director at the 
> NHS, added: "The use of pathology messaging will support the 
> future migration from other current paper-based systems to a 
> variety of e-forms, significantly reducing the overheads." 
> 
> Post office subsidiary ViaCode will provide certificate 
> authority by issuing the public and private keys.
> 
> For related news, see: 
> Entrust CEO falls on PKI sword
> http://www.silicon.com/a42688 
> Entrust advances WTLS interoperability with WAP
> http://www.silicon.com/a42276 
> Entrust puts faith in IBM mainframes
> http://www.silicon.com/a42238 
> 
> 
> STORY ENDS
> 
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