Author Biography

Palmer, Pete

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Biographical Notes

Pete Palmer, vice president of architecture, served as the security architect for Abaton.com (recently purchased by McKesson HBOC) since the company's founding in 1997. Prior to that, Mr. Palmer was the lead security Developer in the Internet Technology Center of UnitedHealth Group's Advanced Technology Center. Mr. Palmer is a member of the national task force on electronic health care communication by The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS). The nation's leading organization for the advancement and management of healthcare information technology chose Palmer to be one of nine members of the National Health Information Infrastructure Task Force. A key goal of the task force is to create and adopt a new infrastructure for securely sharing health information nationwide. In the early 1990's, Mr. Palmer was a member of the team at Cray Research that brought their UNICOS Operating System to an NSA B1 security rating. Pete is a graduate of the Ohio State University and the author of The Web Server Handbook, published by Prentice Hall.