Secure USB Drive

NHS Dumfries and Galloway, which provides healthcare services and promotes healthy living to nearly 150,000 people in Scotland, has recently deployed over 1,100 Cruzer Enterprise secure USB flash drives to secure confidential patient information at its headquarters and in 50 field offices in the region.

The organisation is managing the drives using the SanDisk CMC software.  The roll-out is part of a wider initiative to implement stringent policies for safely storing patient data on PCs, laptops, PDAs and other mobile devices, to proactively manage potential security problems before they happen.

The SanDisk solutions were chosen following a benchmarking process.  Graham Gault, Head of Information Management and Technology for NHS Dumfries & Galloway commented:  “I’ve been in this business a long time, and I’ve yet to see a comparable solution that centrally manages the drive’s complete lifecycle the way that SanDisk’s CMC does.”

Read more about the deployment on E-Health Insider and BBC News.