What does the cloud bring to the table for healthcare organizations when it comes to data storage, availability, and ability to meet HIPAA compliance standards? High-capacity storage without CapEx costs – The need for high-capacity storage and computing is high in the healthcare industry, with medical imaging producing large data files (X-rays, CAT scans, MRIs, [...]
Online Tech is gearing up for the 12th Annual HIMSS Conference & Exhibition in Las Vegas next week, one of the largest healthcare IT conferences in the world. We’ll be exhibiting our HIPAA compliant hosting solutions for healthcare organizations, healthcare Software-as-a-Service (Saas) and other related organizations at Booth #13528. Stay tuned for some live blogging from our Online [...]
Mobile healthcare and apps, mHealth, is, at times, quite literally a matter of life and death. And from my recent research on the trend, there’s widespread agreement that the industry requires pre-defined standards and strong regulation to 1) protect the quality of patient care; and 2) ensure PHI is secure and handled properly. Yet, being [...]
While the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) shows that business associate-related HIPAA breaches were responsible for 62 percent of the total number of patient records breached (as seen in this blog post), there has not been government legal action taken against business associates until recently. Minnesota’s Attorney General is suing a business associate [...]
It’s your last chance to sign up for our free, informative webinar today at 2 P.M. ET with David Barton, Jon Long and Online Tech’s Risk Management & Security Officer Jason Yaeger for a discussion to help clarify data center audit standards and assessments. Register for our free webinar Tuesday, February 14, 2012 (today) from 2-3pm ET to discuss [...]
The advent of BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) and mobile/portable device use in the healthcare industry (currently coined as ‘mHealth’) is said to increase productivity, streamline processes including medical information collection and transmission, and allows people to work remotely and still have access to critical data and applications. A report by Juniper Research estimates that [...]
After reading a blog post about House Representative Mary Bono Mack (R-Calif.) and her concerns about Google’s new privacy policy potentially violating HIPAA compliance standards, I’ve concluded that: Searching for a medical phrase does not make that phrase protected/patient health information (PHI) Users that volunteer search phrases and use Google are consenting to their privacy [...]
Join Online Tech, David Barton and Jon Long for a discussion to help clarify data center audit standards and assessments. Register for our free webinar Tuesday, February 14, 2012 from 2-3pm ET to discuss the differences between AICPA’s (American Institute of Certified Public Accountants) SOC (Service Organization Controls) audits and reports, other types of audits, and [...]
Last August, I wrote a blog post discussing the federal cloud computing initiative launched by then-U.S. CIO Vivek Kundra and his Cloud-First policy developed to motivate agencies to adopt cloud computing projects and reduce overall spending and energy expenditure. On the heels of his endeavor comes a new federal mobile strategy intended to increase productivity [...]
The recent government shutdown of Megaupload, a massive file-sharing service said to house a substantial amount of copyrighted media, has put into motion a series of unfortunate events and provided valuable lessons learned. Server Data Deletion Megaupload’s servers contained more than 25 petabytes (approximately 25 million gigabytes) of data storage (Mashable.com). While the data includes [...]
Online Tech is heading to Las Vegas for the 2012 Annual HIMSS Conference. With 30,000 attendees, HIMSS 12 is one of the largest healthcare IT and management systems conferences in the world.
If you're going to be there too, be sure to stop by Booth #13528!
2012 Annual HIMSS Conference & Exhibition
February 20-24, 2012
Venetian Sands Expo Center
