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HIPAA Compliance Services: 4 Things Your IT Service Provider Should Be Offering
Keeping up with HIPAA and healthcare IT regulations can be a full-time job, if it is done in-house. However, most companies can outsource the liabilities associated with non-compliance by hiring…
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The Top Risk Factors of using a Shared Cloud Environment for your Practice or Firm
There’s a big difference between using a shared cloud environment and using a private cloud for your healthcare or financial applications and data. If you’ve been under the impression that…
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The Top 4 Benefits of Cloud Computing in the Healthcare Industry
A lot has been said about the Cloud and its’ applications in business. It is the first real revolution in data storage since the invention of the removable disk. The bottom…
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8 HIPAA-Related Questions To Ask A Potential Hosting Provider
HIPAA was created primarily to protect the confidentiality and security of healthcare information. As a physician’s practice, you are responsible for ensuring you use HIPAA compliant IT service vendors, particular…
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What You Should Expect From Your Outsourced IT Partner’s Support Team
Outsourcing healthcare IT services has been growing at a fast pace over the past few years. Small hospitals and large physician practices may need to outsource the IT functions, in which case…
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4 Benefits of Using a Private Cloud Hosting Provider
The difference between a public and a private cloud is that a private structure will be used to solely accommodate your company data whereas a public system has infrastructure that…
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What is the Flex-IT Act and Why Should I Care?
As many of you may have heard, Congresswoman Renee Ellmers introduced the Flexibility in Health IT Reporting (Flex-IT) Act of 2014 to the U.S. House of Representatives on September 16,…
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Three Things to do in Response to the Sandworm Threat to Windows Security
Executive Summary: Earlier this week, Microsoft privately released a patch for a critical vulnerability affecting all modern versions of Windows. Without this patch, a malicious file can download and execute…
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Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity: 5 Things You Need to Know
1.What is the difference? To start this discussion, I feel it is important to draw the distinction between these two often interchanged words.
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3 Key Arguments for Moving Your Practice to a Cloud Hosting Environment – IBJI Case Study
Healthcare practices must rise to the challenge of handling data security and managing costs in the evolving use of information technology. Practices unsure of adopting cloud computing solutions should consider…
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SSAE 16 Audit: What it Means for Healthcare Information Security
An SSAE 16 (Statement on Standards for Attestation Engagements, no. 16) audit is a standard created by the Auditing Standards Board (ASB) and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants…
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What is Flash Storage and How does it Help Healthcare IT?
Healthcare Information Technology is a Very Dynamic Entity The healthcare industry has been going through some massive reforms. Not only is this the case with federal requirements, healthcare insurance and access,…