Encrypting Data at Rest
Vincent Fusca trusts his staff. But he can’t take any chances. It’s all about the money.
As operations director at Dartmouth Medical School’s Center for Evaluative Clinical Studies in Hanover, N.H., Fusca oversees the handling of nearly 7TB of raw medical data from the Center for Medicaid and Medicare Studies. Programmers aggregate and refine the data down to data-analysis sets that researchers use to publish some of the most comprehensive comparative medical research in the U.S.