AirStrip CEO Alan Portela will make his case for better mobile medical app security during testimony this Thursday before the House Committee on Small Business' Subcommittee on Health and Technology.
Portela, who joined AirStrip in 2011 and has more than 25 years of experience in the mHealth industry, is one of three speakers scheduled to testify during the session, titled "Mobile Medical App Entrepreneurs: Changing the Face of Health Care." The session is expected to focus on challenges facing mHealth companies, the importance of security measures for mobile solutions, and federal regulation.
It's a topic that Portela knows all too well. Recently, San Antonio, Texas-based AirStrip announced that its mHealth platform was the first to be certified by the U.S. Air Force as compliant with Department of Defense Information Assurance Certification and Accreditation Process (DIACAP) security requirements. The certification allows AirStrip applications to be used at any Air Force military treatment facility.
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AirStrip CEO Alan Portela will make his case for better mobile medical app security during testimony this Thursday before the House Committee on Small Business' Subcommittee on Health and Technology.
Portela, who joined AirStrip in 2011 and has more than 25 years of experience in the mHealth industry, is one of three speakers scheduled to testify during the session, titled "Mobile Medical App Entrepreneurs: Changing the Face of Health Care." The session is expected to focus on challenges facing mHealth companies, the importance of security measures for mobile solutions, and federal regulation.
It's a topic that Portela knows all too well. Recently, San Antonio, Texas-based AirStrip announced that its mHealth platform was the first to be certified by the U.S. Air Force as compliant with Department of Defense Information Assurance Certification and Accreditation Process (DIACAP) security requirements. The certification allows AirStrip applications to be used at any Air Force military treatment facility.
- See more at: http://www.mhimss.org/news/portela-testify-dc-mhealth-security#sthash.4h...
AirStrip CEO Alan Portela will make his case for better mobile medical app security during testimony this Thursday before the House Committee on Small Business' Subcommittee on Health and Technology.
Portela, who joined AirStrip in 2011 and has more than 25 years of experience in the mHealth industry, is one of three speakers scheduled to testify during the session, titled "Mobile Medical App Entrepreneurs: Changing the Face of Health Care." The session is expected to focus on challenges facing mHealth companies, the importance of security measures for mobile solutions, and federal regulation.
It's a topic that Portela knows all too well. Recently, San Antonio, Texas-based AirStrip announced that its mHealth platform was the first to be certified by the U.S. Air Force as compliant with Department of Defense Information Assurance Certification and Accreditation Process (DIACAP) security requirements. The certification allows AirStrip applications to be used at any Air Force military treatment facility.
- See more at: http://www.mhimss.org/news/portela-testify-dc-mhealth-security#sthash.4h...
AirStrip CEO Alan Portela will make his case for better mobile medical app security during testimony this Thursday before the House Committee on Small Business' Subcommittee on Health and Technology.
Portela, who joined AirStrip in 2011 and has more than 25 years of experience in the mHealth industry, is one of three speakers scheduled to testify during the session, titled "Mobile Medical App Entrepreneurs: Changing the Face of Health Care." The session is expected to focus on challenges facing mHealth companies, the importance of security measures for mobile solutions, and federal regulation.
It's a topic that Portela knows all too well. Recently, San Antonio, Texas-based AirStrip announced that its mHealth platform was the first to be certified by the U.S. Air Force as compliant with Department of Defense Information Assurance Certification and Accreditation Process (DIACAP) security requirements. The certification allows AirStrip applications to be used at any Air Force military treatment facility.
"This type of security does not exist in the private sector," Portela said during an interview last week. Whereas much of the attention is focused on encryption and security at the app level, he said, not enough attention is paid to operating systems, where encryption and authentication can be monitored in real time.
"We need to bring the standards (inherent in DIACAP certification) into the private sector," he said. "We need to open the gates."
Portela said federal regulators need to take a look at the healthcare system from a vendor's point of view, creating conditions whereby vendors can work with providers to improve security across the enterprise.
The hearing is scheduled to take place at 10 a.m. ET on Thursday, June 27, in room 2360 of the Rayburn House Office Building, and will be live-streamed on the committee's website. Rep. Chris Collins, R-N.Y., will give the opening statement.
Portela is one of three speakers invited to testify. He'll be joined by Keith Brophy, CEO of Ideomed, a Grand Rapids, Mich.-based developer of digital health management solutions; and Sabrina Casucci, a PhD candidate in industrial and systems engineering at the University of Buffalo in Amherst, N.Y.
