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Physicians felt the pain this summer when a malware attack hit Nuance Communications, a voice transcription service for healthcare providers.

Some physicians couldn’t use the company’s technology, which added dictated notes into electronic health records (EHRs), as a result of the cyberattack on the company.

The incident shows that a physician can have problems with his or her EHR even if they’re not a victim on a direct cyberattack, said Cliff Baker, chief executive officer of Meditology, a health IT security services company.

In fact, there are many threats besides a direct cyberattack that could bring down or cripple an EHR, health IT experts said.

Fires and floods can take out onsite computer servers running the EHR software. Construction mishaps and power surges can knock out electricity or Internet connections. Faulty system upgrades and corrupt code can cause a system crash. Baker said he saw one system failure caused when someone unplugged a piece of critical hardware.

“It’s a likelihood that you won’t have access to your clinical information at some point for any number of reasons, so you need to think through what you would do without it,” said Andrew Gettinger, MD, chief medical information officer and director of the Office of Clinical Quality and Safety for the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology.

Certainly, physicians will need to contact their EHR vendor as well as their IT providers if their EHR crashes.

But experts said that action alone will not enough to ensure the practice can continue to operate while systems are down.

Gettinger said physicians should determine in advance what other steps to take in case of a system failure and formalize them in a disaster recovery-business continuity plan based on their risks and requirements.

Winston & Strawn LLP is pleased to announce that Esha Bandyopadhyay and Nimalka Wickramasekera have joined the firm’s Intellectual Property Practice as partners in the Silicon Valley and Los Angeles offices, respectively. Esha joins the firm from Turner Boyd and Nimalka from Kirkland & Ellis LLP, where she and Esha previously worked together.

“When I joined Winston, my goal was to expand and strengthen our West Coast team in a purposeful way to provide the best service to clients and the industry as a whole,” said Kathi Vidal, the firm’s Silicon Valley managing partner. “I’m looking forward to teaming with Esha and Nimalka, both of whom are strong and successful women in IP and patent litigation, to achieve those objectives.”

“We are thrilled to have these two talented partners join our West Coast team and further enhance our intellectual property capabilities,” said Eric Sagerman, Winston’s Los Angeles managing partner. “Both Esha and Nimalka bring impressive experience and capabilities that greatly complement the work we are doing across the state.”

Esha has been practicing intellectual property and technology-related commercial litigation and counseling for close to two decades. Her practice focuses primarily on complex patent disputes, in which she has obtained verdicts of patent invalidity, achieved jury verdicts in the millions, and recovered millions in settlements – in technologies ranging from computer hardware to wireless standards to anti-virus and encryption software to medical devices. Esha also has substantial experience with trade secret disputes, and has litigated numerous copyright, trademark, Internet, and false advertising matters.

Nimalka focuses on patent, trade secret, and commercial litigation in the telecommunication, computer hardware, healthcare, medical device, and biotechnology industries. She has significant stand-up courtroom experience and has represented clients before district courts, the ITC, and the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB).

The system’s ongoing expenses are about the same as before. Among other things, the city is maintaining its shared-services agreement with the county government, which hosts its server.

The difference, Hopkins said, that the city now has much better software and a one-stop shop, Tyler, for training, support and future upgrades.

In summer 2015 Munis’ financial module went live, the first component to do so. That was followed by payroll in January 2016.

Later came real estate tax billing — the bills that went out in February were the first issued on Munis — then utility billing, then a module for handling permits, licenses and inspections.

In April, the city suspended credit and debit card payments for a week while transitioning its Treasury office to the new system.

All the city’s back-end operations are now on Munis, Hopkins said.

Meanwhile, the city has been moving its internal telecommunications onto its new 1-gigabit fiber optic network, the same system that serves as the backbone for LanCity Connect, the public-private consumer broadband initiative the city is undertaking with MAW Communications.

City Hall and the interim Streets Bureau building at 515 N. Franklin St. were put onto the fiber-optic network in June. The Treasury department switched over at the end of August, and the police department is expected to follow within a few weeks, Hopkins said.

If you think getting knocked around in your backpack on the subway is tough on a computer, try going into space, where radiation and cosmic rays can cause sensitive computer equipment to degrade and fail.

Aerospace company BAE Systems has just announced a new computer it calls ;radiation-hardened.; According to the company, the new RAD5545 ;provides next-generation spacecraft with the high-performance onboard processing capacity needed to support future space missions,; and is faster and more power-efficient than its predecessor.

Because it's a single-card computer with all the components on one circuit board, it's smaller, with fewer parts to potentially fail, and it uses specially insulated components to protect against radiation. Long-term trips, such as to Mars, would especially require computer hardware that could stand up to the long-term rigors of space travel.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise meanwhile is trying a different approach to dealing with radiation. It's space-testing relatively ordinary computers with software to detect and correct radiation-induced computing errors.


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