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P A NE L Upwardly MOBILE THE PANELISTS Who can challenge Apple in the tablet market? Dimitri Volkmann VP Enterprise Product Strategy & Planning for Good Technology Quintanar: The Droids are jumping on the market. With Apple trying to keep a tight constraint on the iOS, it's making it difficult for other people, so they're migrating to the Droid. If Apple doesn't relax their policies a little bit, my opinion is the Droids are going to surge pretty high, because it's an open source and [software vendors] are able to do more development and more things. Humberto Quintanar CIO, Antelope Valley Hospital in Lancaster, Calif. Kempson: It will be interesting to see what happens with the Kindle Fire, as that is now hitting the market at such a lower price point. I would watch that because of its capability and Amazon's marketing reach. Are convenience and productivity outweighed by security in the deployment of mobile devices? Kempson: In healthcare, we can't afford the risk of a HIPAA breach if a device gets stolen or a communication gets intercepted. So, regardless of the benefits we might gain from mobilizing a workflow, if we can't do it in a secure way, we're just not going there. David Kempson CIO, Maricopa Integrated Health System in Phoenix, Ariz. Quintanar: Today, if we put content on an iPhone and you lose it, the only thing we can do is turn it into a brick. You lose it and we're going 58

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