New Intel® SOA Expressway for Healthcare Release Powers Patient/Provider Community Exchange at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center

It’s been about a year and half since we first released Intel® SOA Expressway for Healthcare, which is a purpose-built, easy-to-deploy integration appliance for connecting islands of information together to enable a secure, high-performance, best-of-breed health information infrastructure. We have now begun shipping release 2.2, which contains a number of new feature enhancements.

• Healthcare Quick Start Kit: prebuilt modules, workflows and data transformation maps to reduce learning curve and improve developer productivity.
• Improved Microsoft Windows Support: new deployment options that take advantage of Windows installer technology make it simple to automate deployment and installation of SOA Expressway across a cluster of servers. In addition, we’ve beefed up support for command line scripting (CLI) on windows to enable even more flexible product configuration and administration using automated scripting tools.
• Reliable Messaging and Replay: advanced support for configuring guaranteed delivery options for sending and receiving of health data.
• Hardened Appliance Form-factor: In partnership with Dell, we now offer a 1U high-performance hardware appliance with tamper-resistant features not available anywhere else.
• Virtualization: Since Intel SOA Expressway is software it supports a variety of hardware virtualization technologies. We’ve now made that even easier by making the product available as a Virtual Appliance in the VMWare Virtual Appliance Marketplace

So is this just another integration engine for healthcare? Well, I’ll give you three examples why this product is different:

1. Intel SOA Expressway for Healthcare lets you extend your legacy Health IT. Because rip-and-replace is never an option, we’ve designed an integration appliance that is easily-deployed as an overlay to your existing Healthcare I.T. applications, databases, even interface engines. Intel SOA Expressway lets you extend your legacy environment by quickly assembling data from a diverse set of proprietary applications and databases into higher-value, standardized information services layer.

2. Intel SOA Expressway for Healthcare is a highly integrated appliance. It performs message transformation, mediation and routing, and security in a lightweight, tightly integrated, high performance runtime. Intel’s approach addresses the high-cost, poor performance and low flexibility of the software “suite” approach to integration, which typically require a substantial investment in an entire stack of separate products to meet even simple integration needs.

3. Intel SOA Expressway for Healthcare is future-proofed. Most integration products today are focused on micro-level integration, simply moving health data from point-to-point, which actually contributes to information silos, adding cost and complexity to a healthcare information environment. Unlike these products which provide a thin veil of standards support at the edge of the product, Intel SOA Expressway for Healthcare has “designed-in” healthcare standards deep within the product to enable healthcare interoperability, not just point-to-point integration.

Intel SOA Expressway maximizes value from your “legacy” investment while “future-proofing” IT infrastructure — all at breakthrough cost. The value is clear, whether you are looking to build a backbone for a state or national Health Information Exchange; a B2B Hub for high-volume, secure message processing; or even a provider looking for an inexpensive health information gateway to efficiently exchange healthcare information inside hospitals and with health information networks.

Recently, Intel SOA Expressway was selected by Newark Beth Israel Medical Center (NBI), 600+ bed teaching hospital in New Jersey to power the launch of its first comprehensive electronic health information exchange, which will offer a shared clinical data repository to its partner institutions, physicians, other care givers and patients. Intel collaborated with healthcare portal solutions provider IGI to create a next generation solutions for hospitals and IDNs, enabling healthcare providers to securely exchange patient information at the point of care — key to providing better services and reducing integration costs. View the on-demand webinar here.

IGI is an active Intel systems integrator partner that provides an Affiliated Physician and Patient portal solution that enables uniform access to a broad range of services such as referrals and care coordination, e-prescribing, instant access to labs, claims and medication history, as well as a comprehensive virtual patient record. The integration between IGI ORBIT® and Intel® SOA Expressway for Healthcare provides an efficient, scalable, SOA based solution that connects and translates data as it moves across a healthcare network. IGI ORBIT utilizes Intel SOA Expressway to retrieve data for portal display from a variety of hospital systems including EHR, EMR, database, or HL7 based sources, providing the fastest, simplest way for to enable integrated care services and interoperability across a community of participants.

For more information visit the Intel SOA Expressway for Healthcare website here.

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Remote Encryption Management, what is it and what does the SDK do?

So, there&aposs a new SDK available on the ISN Manageability site, and it frankly needs some explanation. Plus just some description on what Remote Encryption Management is, since it hasn��t been discussed previously.

To sum up in a sentence, Remote Encryption Management supports the ability to unlock an encrypted hard drive through vPro. This refers to both software encrypted solution (where the OS and a pre-boot authentication are involved), or FDE encrypted hard drives where the encryption is handled at the hard drive level. This helps to solve a previous conflict if someone wanted to use both encrypted hard drives and vPro to wake up and patch a system when a user wasn��t present. Previously the systems had to be left unlocked overnight, or a user had to be physically present to unlock the hard drive. Now, the credentials to unlock the systems can be passed to the system to unlock it from remotely, and allow the patching process to continue. This also enables some other use cases remotely out of band, such as securely erasing the hard drive once the machine is no longer in use to ensure that sensitive data is removed.

The SDK contains both an example console that shows how the functionality could be integrated into an existing encryption solution, and an ISO file that can be remotely booted using the IDE-R functionality to unlock the systems. It also includes the source for both of these components, to make the integration task into an existing solution easier. If the existing encryption solution already has a pre-boot authentication environment, the key component of the ISO (the ATAoverLAN bridge) can be integrated into the pre-boot authentication environment. Integration into a pre-boot authentication environment is actually a better performing solution, since the ISO image does not need to be loaded over the network before the hard drive can be unlocked.

One of the things that is interesting about this project is that since its software based, it can work with the existing vPro platforms that were released last year. This functionality is supported on full vPro systems (not Standard Manageability systems) in the current generation of AMT 4 and AMT 5 systems, as well as the next vPro generation that releases next year.

Even if someone doesn��t have an existing encryption solution to integrate this functionality into, the SDK still might be of interest. I mentioned the ISO previously, it&aposs a Linux based iso image that&aposs used through IDE-R. In addition to the ISO image itself, the source for that ISO file is provided. This iso is very compact (it��s approximately 2.5 MB), and could potentially be used for other out of band functionality.

Note that this conversation is still pretty high level and I��ve papered over some details that would be involved. If anything I��ve talked about sounds interesting, I��d recommend downloading the Remote Encryption Management SDK here: http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/download-the-latest-version-of-Remote-Encryption-ManagementSDK/ and look at the more detailed content.

There��s also a demo video of the functionality being used here: http://software.intel.com/en-us/videos/amt-remote-encryption-management-demo/

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Seagate First To Ship Enterprise-Class Self-Encrypting Drives To VARs And System Builders Worldwide

SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif. – September 22, 2009 -

Seagate’s enterprise Self-Encrypting Drives (SED). Strong enough for national security… Simple enough for the one-man IT shop.

Seagate Technology (NASDAQ:STX) today announced worldwide availability of the Seagate Secure™ Self-Encrypting Drive (SED) option across its portfolio of enterprise-class hard drives. Products with the Seagate Secure option include: Savvio™ 15K.2, Savvio 10K.3, Constellation™ and Cheetah™ 15K.7 drives.

These enterprise-class products are an extension of Seagate’s first-to-market leadership with Seagate Secure Self-Encrypting Drive (SED) technology, designed to deliver data-at-rest security for servers and storage systems.

Read the full press release

URL: http://media.seagate.com/2009/09/seagatetechnology/seagate-first-to-ship-enterprise-class-self-encrypting-drives-to-vars-and-system-builders-worldwide/