Obama reaffirms the commitment of Security U.S. ally Poland (Reuters)

By Steve Holland and Gabriela Baczynska Steve Holland and Gabriela Baczynska - Sat may 28, 1: 27 pm EST

Warsaw (Reuters) - President Barack Obama promised close cooperation with the Poland Saturday on missile defence, the modernization of its means of air defence and in the development of shale gas and nuclear energy to enhance its energy security.

In his first visit to Warsaw, Obama also defends his "reset" relations with the Russia, a policy which sometimes annoyed poles are suspicious of the resurgence of Moscow and its efforts to reduce Western influence in the former Soviet republics.

"Poland is one of our strongest and closest allies in the world and is a leader in Europe", Obama told a joint with Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk press conference.

"We want to do is to create an environment in this region where peace and security are a given." This is not only good for this region. It's good for the United States of America. And we've always will be for the Poland. ?

Obama and Tusk finalized an agreement to establish an air detachment U.S. in Poland of 2013 which will help to train Polish pilots in the use of F-16 fighter planes and C-130 transport planes.

"Size (detachment) is not great, but it is a very significant gesture," said Tusk, alluding to the desire for a long time in Warsaw for "American boots on the ground."

"What I have heard today gives me the impression that we work together to improve the security of the Poland."

Obama reaffirmed the role of the Poland in plans for missile defense to counter the threat of ballistic missile in the short and medium term of countries such as the Iran. Plans include deploying SM - 3 interceptors in 2018 Poland.

RUSSIA LINKS "ZEROING."

Obama invited to take part in its plans for missile defence for Europe, the Russia, but Moscow is seeking a greater share in the development of them stir unease between the poles and others.

"We believe defence missile is something where we can cooperate with the Russia...". Will not be a threat to the strategic balance, "said Obama.

Warsaw has tried to repair his own long-cold ties with Moscow, but remain areas of friction, including an investigation into the causes of a plane crash in Russia last year which killed Polish President Lech Kaczynski and 95 others.

Obama visited a monument for the victims of the accident Saturday.

On energy security, confirmed Obama interests of American companies in the development of the Poland shale gas – estimated by some experts to be the most important in Europe to 5.3 billion cubic metres - and by helping to build its first nuclear plant.

Warsaw hopes that the two projects will significantly reduce its heavy reliance on polluting coal and on imports of Russian natural gas.

Obama had words sharp for Belarus neighbors, which courts have sentenced opposition politicians to long prison sentences in these last days. He and the Poland urged the two President Alexander Lukashenko to release all and demonstrate respect for human rights.

"The kind of repressive measures, we are witnessing in Belarus may end up having a negative impact on the entire region and that makes us less safe and makes us less secure," said Obama.

He said the transition of the Poland of democracy over the past two decades has provided a model for the neighbours of the ex-Soviet as the Ukraine and the Belarus and to reform the Arab countries.

Promotion of democracy in the Arab world and Eastern Europe has been the theme of the Obama talks Friday night with about 20 of Central and Eastern leaders Europeans gathered in Warsaw.

Speaking in a room of the presidential palace where the discussions of the Round Table took place in 1989 which ended the Communist regime in the Poland, Obama said that Warsaw could provide some useful lessons in the construction of a democracy for reformers everywhere in the world.

In a gesture that delighted guests, Obama threw its weight behind the efforts in the Congress of United States to facilitate the visa regime for Poles travelling to the United States, a major irritant in bilateral ties.

(Written by Gareth Jones; editing by Mark Heinrich)

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Health care in Transition data security

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Slideshow: Health it stimulates the Patient Care, SafetyAs hospitals move their security efforts, health, security of the data is in transition. External hackers are less a concern these days that insiders snooping on medical and financial records electronic. Hospitals is to share more data with practices of small doctor who may not have sufficient safeguards in place, while mobile devices are extend well beyond institutional walls, networks. In addition, the Federal personal information protection and security standards get more strong, as are penalties for violation of these rules.

"Your greatest [threats] are internal," Terrell Herzig, security officer information of the University of Alabama at Birmingham health system (UAB), said Tuesday at a health it Conference in Atlanta. "." Employees are known for take peaks unauthorized in the files of figures such as local celebrities or prominent citizens, and with more than 50 million uninsured Americans, there is a black market thriving for identification numbers stolen and fraudulent health plan.

"We are emphasizing awareness and education" for employees and medical staff, said Mark Moroses, officer of information Chief of Continuum health partners, a system of five-hospital in New York. "We are trying to do step to have a strong hand in less flagrant violation." The loop of education is what we focus on. ?

Still, after a local newspaper exposed security vulnerabilities in a hospital in Continuum by obtaining an insider to emphasize how access to patient records, economy turns south, helped authorities stop and continue the employee, who was she had stolen patient identities to another hospital, but was not taken. "We did a better job of gathering of evidence," said economy turns south.

"You cannot lock the whole," said Cigdem main Delano, information officer at Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM) in Atlanta, said. "Regardless of what you do, always there is a human factor.

During this time, security and compliance officers are trying to find a delicate balance between the protection of their data and make it systems so difficult to navigate than users - especially these whimsical creatures known as physicians - rebel.

"You can also too have security," said Delano. At least someone in the MSM intended legal Department Ministry of Defense-level security in the clinical computer server room, said. But the school of medicine is not to do something with implications of national security bioterrorism research.

However, UAB has some contracts with the National Institutes of Health that involve potentially sensitive data, but did not want to prevent end users by forcing them to enter a complex password whenever they turned the computer for a few seconds. Herzig and his team chose thin client with the two factors as smart card authentication. If users remove their cards without closing a session, their sessions to remain frozen. They can reinsert cards to other workstations and simply return a personal identification number to return to work.

Continuum has essentially become its computers on wheels dumb terminal, economy turns south, said and next year will have only thin clients available for most end users. This is what Mike Wall, CEO of grid DICOM, a provider of storage Phoenix cloud and the archiving of digital medical images, called a "zero footprint" from the security perspective: no data stored on local computers.

"The whole zero-footprint thing is great, said Herzig, particularly in the era of mobility." "We made the decision that we were going to manage data, step of devices," he said.

Sometimes, however, it is impossible to keep all internal data, such as application to a growing number of patients for electronic copies of medical records and images. This is where the encryption comes in. Herzig talks to find a CD has clearly marked with the name of the patient lying in the hospital parking lot. The image on the disk was not guaranteed.

Apparently, this is a common phenomenon. "All the facilities to go to, there is a problem of CD," said wall, whose company, of course, has an interest in moving images in the cloud.

According to economy turns south, in the two years or more have security providers important information Summers to provide end-end encryption products and services end-to-health organizations. Prior to this, it was rather piecemeal.

"We went through what I affectionately call encryption conniptions", adds Herzig. "She be continuous through the space."

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