Security Is Not An Option

  "Use of security applications within the healthcare industry is largely driven by compliance requirements," said Frost & Sullivan Research Analyst Santosh Antony, who attended the Texas Instruments sponsored webinar series on Wireless Medical Device Security, Vulnerability and Market Trends. "Taking into account the increasing pressure from government bodies, healthcare security is becoming a matter of compulsion rather than choice."

"Having a central archive, separate from the PACS applications, is critical because it allows the data to be managed and accessed in one place," said Enterprise Strategy Group analyst Brian Babineau. "You can get better resource utilization that way, [and it's] easy to securely share the content. The argument is very similar to that of direct attached storage versus networked storage."