The IT Hot Topics Conference, hosted by Carolina Advanced Digital and industry partners, is one of the most unique technology and security events in the area. An event that started as a technical user group in 2002, the IT Hot Topics Conference has blossomed in to a full-featured conference, with internationally-recognized speakers, trainings, and technical content unparalleled in the area.

This fun and intimate event brings together a few hundred IT and security professionals from across North Carolina, the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast regions, and offers hand-picked content based on attendee requests, exceptional peer networking, and technical content that transcends sales-driven conferences and seminars.

Read more about this year’s conference.

Presentation at NCHICA’s annual conference.

Expert Mobility: Managing Wifi, Wearables, Sensors & IoT for Availability, Quality & Security for Availability, Quality & Security (Tuesday 10:15-11:15 am)

Today’s connected hospital relies on mobility for everything from guest services to tracking patients and administering medications. As trends in mHealth and IoHT (Internet of Healthcare Things) grow, the requirements of your network morph to a mobile-first environment where availability, security, and quality are key to patient care and privacy. Learn about the underlying technologies and trends including:

• Today’s and tomorrow’s mobile technology trends
• Specific considerations for healthcare
• Managing the logical and physical aspects of mobility
• Considerations for planning, managing, and securing your mobile environments
• Best practices in design and implementation

Session Objectives:

• Discuss current and future mobile trends in healthcare.
• Describe best practices for managing the availability, quality, and security of mobile environments.
• Describe threats and vulnerabilities of mobile technology and mitigation techniques.

Jennifer Minella (Carolina Advanced Digital)

Carolina Advanced Digital is an exhibiting sponsor of the NCCCS IIPS Winter Conference, rescheduled from October 2016 to January 2017.

Carolina Advanced Digital is proud to be an exhibiting sponsor of the NCET conference.

Come see our session Thursday morning 8:15

“Wi-Fi Design and Deployment, Best Practices and Considerations” with Network Engineer Damien Cameron

Exhibiting sponsor at NCHICA’s AMC (Academic Medical Center) conference.

About the conference

The title of this year’s conference is It’s Your Move: Strategies and Solutions for a Changing World. The conference provides an excellent opportunity for security/privacy planners, officers, compliance staff and operational managers to learn how their peers are handling important privacy and security concerns such as risk management, business associates and cybersecurity. The program on Monday and Tuesday features three plenary sessions and 17 breakout sessions on Legal/Regulatory Compliance, Business Associates/Technology and Cybersecurity/Risk Management topics.  The sessions include time for Q&A, and there is ample time to network with peers outside the sessions as well. Monday’s keynote speaker is Dr. Robert Califf, former Commissioner of the FDA, who will discuss Imagining the Role of AMCs in the New Information Era. On Tuesday, our Quiz the Regulator session will feature Deven McGraw, Deputy Director for Health Information Privacy in the HHS Office for Civil Rights. After lunch, Dr. Kevin Fu will discuss Medical Device Security as an Inventory Problem: The Five Second Rule for Mystery Meat on Clinical Networks. The program on Wednesday features a half-day forum on Regulatory Compliance: How New Technologies, Regulations and Cybersecurity Threats will Affect  Healthcare Organizations in 2017. The forum includes presentations and time for small table discussions.