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Originally Posted by rd_aaron
Why is important information kept locally on a laptop as opposed to on servers somewhere?
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Because it's difficult and expensive. Medicentre has 16 locations (AFAIK) and probably over 100 staff. Building an application to support that sort of scale takes a lot of time and probably more than $1 mill. My guess is that their executives weighed the importance of keeping this sort of data confidential versus the cost and decided to take the risk. It happens everyday in private industry (Sony, for example).
Besides, just because it's "on a server" doesn't mean it's a whole lot more secure.