Are your Treatment Room Keyboards Safe?

In the largest study of its kind to date, an investigation of the extent of contamination of computer keyboards in hospitals has shown that 58% are contaminated with harmful bacteria. The study, conducted under the direction of Dr. John Conly at the Ward of the 21st Century in Calgary¹, sampled 230 keyboards across 3 different ward types in 4 separate hospitals. The swabs from the keyboards were cultured and tested and found to contain harmful organisms including antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria. When these bacteria were analyzed, they were found to be closely related to strains that cause potentially-life threatening infections in hospital patients.
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Over the past year or so I’ve had the pleasure of speaking with a great many dental professionals and when the subject of HIPAA and compliance comes up, it’s one that’s been shrugged off more times than not. I don’t believe it’s from a lack of concern over security or patient privacy but rather a frustration with ever changing governmental regulations that create additional costs, headache, frustration and in the end don’t achieve the desired results they were intended.
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DNSChanger Malware and Monday July 9th, 2012

By now you probably have seen a news report or two regarding the potential “sleeping malware” that may knock thousands of people off the Internet on Monday July 9th, 2012.  If you haven’t then here are some links with full details with the how and why this event could impact you and your business
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By Eric Rieger, President of WEBIT Services, Inc.
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SMK-LINK Model VP6346 Review
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