“The report, commissioned by NHS Dumfries and Galloway and carried out on behalf of Atos Origin Alliance, addressed the potential use of the iPhone 4 16GB, iPhone Touch 8GB and 32Gb and iPad 3G 16GB in the NHS,” Bruce reports. “The board commissioned the work to support its plans to implement an iPhone application designed to provide access to its patient administration system to ensure information is available at the point of care.”
“It says that the operating systems on the idevices had supported disk encryption since the iPhone 3GS and that iPads, iPods larger than 8GB and the iPhone 4 models now include a hardware encryption accelerator,” Bruce reports. “However, the 8Gb iPod Touch does not support an encryption mechanism, meaning that data on the device could be accessible.”
Bruce reports, “It recommends that the most secure devices for running the Cortix that will link the devices to the board’s patient administration system, were the 32GB iPod touch and the iPhone 4. It added that ‘the iPad lagged some way behind in terms of software updates.'”
MacDailyNews Note: Not as of Monday:
• Apple releases iOS 4.2; ‘Find My iPhone’ (or iPad or iPod touch) now free – November 22, 2010
• iOS 4.2.1 Software Update contains over 100 new features for iPad; here’s the full list – November 22, 2010
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