Apple iOS v5 for iPad and iPhone is out!  iCloud is great, allowing easy synchronization of your Apple devices and limited synch with Outlook.

For easy synchronization of your iPhone, iPad, and all other mobile devices (i.e. Blackberry, Android, Windows Mobile) and LuxSci’s WebAide collaboration tools (Tasks / Calendars / Contacts), LuxSci MobileSync is still the best way to go.

Apple iOS5 with LuxSci Mobile Sync:

• Still supports multiple calendar and contact list synchronizations
• Still supports mail synchronization, Push email, and secure sending
• New – Supports automatic synchronization of iOS “Reminders” with WebAide Task Lists
• New – Create new email folders from the Mail application
• New – Calendar events now support separate time zones for each event, making collaboration with folks in differing time zones much easier.
• New – Flag Support. The “Flagged” status of email messages now synchronizes
• New – Offline email move and delete.  If you move or delete mail while disconnected, these operations will now be performed when your device reconnects
• Updated – Improves notification to users of new mail and other items
• Updated – Server-side email folder searching has been improved.

Additionally, with LuxSci WebAideSync, you can also have your Calendars/Tasks/Contacts automatically synchronized with Microsoft Outlook as well.

When health care organizations review their operations to see where electronic protected health information (ePHI) is being saved, transmitted, and viewed, a great deal of time is spent on the obvious candidates: email, chat, stored files and health records, etc.

Many overlook the fact that ePHI can be embedded in Contacts, Calendars, and Tasks.  Consider for example:

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If your mobile device (e.g., iPad or Blackberry) is lost or stolen, then you have no control over who may gain access to:

• Viewing existing and new email messages
• All of your contacts
• Your calendar appointments
• Sending email as you
• and more…

This is pretty serious, especially for folks who are subject to regulations and compliance laws.

For example, if a Nurse, using an iPad to manage patient appointments or to communicate via email with remote doctors, were to lose that iPad and it were to be accessed by someone else, then that may become a HIPAA “breach” (an unauthorized disclosure of protected health information) and the Nurse’s organization may be subject to stiff monetary fines and bad publicity.

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LuxSci now offers Basic Mobile Sync and Premium Mobile Sync.  These synchronization services enable:

• Real-time two-way synchronization of Calendar, Contact, and Tasks between LuxSci WebAides and Mobile devices
• Push Email for real time notifications of new email
• Compatibile with any mobile device that supports Exchange / ActiveSync.  This includes: iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, Android, Windows Mobile, Palm Pre/Pixi, and BlackBerry*
• HIPAA-compliant security, when used with a LuxSci HIPAA account, adds mobile synchronization for any user, even if sensitive data is present in email, calendars, contacts, or tasks.
• The same level of security can also be had in non-HIPAA accounts by using SecureLine and appropriate security settings.
• Beta: Mobile Sync services are now in “Beta” and not yet available for purchase.  The Beta testing period is expected to end sometime in January, 2011.  If you are interested being a Beta tester and using this service before then, please Contact Sales.

For complete details on the features included with this servce, see our Mobile Sync Service page.

*BlackBerry support requires the purchase of a third party app, as BlackBerry is the only major mobile device without support for over-the-air synchronization with Exchange.

We are often approached by customers wanting to use their blackberry mobile devices to send and receive email that may contain electronic Protected Health Information (ePHI).  Such customers, when they must abide by the HIPAA and HITECH laws governing medical privacy, must comply with a long set of regulations that covers, among other things, how ePHI may be transmitted over the Internet.

This article deals with the security of sending and receiving email on a Blackberry configured for Internet email services (i.e. it does not apply to those connecting to an Blackberry Enterprise Server and Exchange).

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LuxSci has improved its Support Ticketing interface in the Xpress WebMail portal to function and display well on mobile devices such as the iPhone and Blackberry.  Xpress users can now easily submit Support requests or questions using their mobile device or smart phone via a slim new interface.  In addition, all LuxSci pages displaying a tree-menu layout of links (e.g. Preferences, Email Tools and Support Tickets pages) have been updated to minimize the display width of these pages.

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As you may have heard, Barack Obama is tethered to his Blackberry.  It’s great to have a highly technical President of the United States, but it is really shaking things up.  All of the policies and procedures date back to times before PDAs and smart phones.  Obama is really struggling to cling to the same technical edge in his day-to-day affairs that he has enjoyed to date. But the security team at the Oval Office has other plans.

No Blackberry for Obama!

Instead, he gets what is being dubbed the “BarackBerry” — a high security blackberry replacement.  Why is the Blackberry (and similar devices) such a security concern?

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