Health IT Security January 28, 2015
In the past year, we’ve seen some of the biggest data security breaches happen in the healthcare world. One way to be safe is to lock down your electronic health record infrastructure. UTMB is a great example of this. EPIC has pretty much standardized their EHR deployment on Citrix virtual systems and UTMB has adopted this system. They simply didn’t want any installed instances of EPIC anywhere. For them, it takes about 10 minutes to patch all 40 servers at the same time, which is a lot easier than patching thousands of desktops. UTMB implemented self-service password reset, a key feature of the Citrix solution, to reduce calls to the help desk. Also, the organization installed Citrix NetScaler Gateway SSL VPN appliances for secure, remote delivery of XenApp hosted applications. From there, about 50 percent of UTMB employees use the Citrix environment.