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Shortly after installing new security software from Israel-based Morphisec Technologies to protect thousands of computers and patient records across 30 facilities, Skip Rollins, chief information security officer at Freeman Health System, became worried: it was too quiet.
Rollins had not received any suspicious activity alerts. Nor had he noticed many software upgrade prompts, or other messages typical of most cybersecurity systems.
“It was just like radio silence,” Rollins said. Looking more closely at the few communications from Morphisec, his team realized that the program had indeed been doing its job and preventing cyberattacks but it worked alone, without needing any response or action from the IT staff.
Local physician addresses public s concerns about vaccine joplinglobe.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from joplinglobe.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Sense of Community: Jessica Liberty
She tells me about two types of COVID tests. There’s the oropharyngeal, or OP swab, a throat swab used for asymptomatic patients; and the nasopharyngeal, or NP, swab, the infamous nose swab used for symptomatic patients. While neither is pleasant, Liberty tells me the NP swab is more uncomfortable and it’s good to talk the patients through it.
“We put them on the schedule and we have that conversation piece with them over the phone. We say, ‘You are symptomatic. We’re going to perform and nasopharyngeal swab on you. This is what you can expect.’ And then once the swabber performs the swab, in my experience in the swabbing that I’ve done is if you just tell them take big, deep, cleansing breaths and then you continue to coach them while you’re swabbing, I feel like they just do so much better and you just talk very, very calm. ‘Yes, this is uncomfortable. I apologize. I’m going to keep twisting and I’ve counted to five. Now I