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, [...]
If disaster strikes, how long will it take before PHI is available again? Part of due diligence is asking yourself and your partners detailed questions about contingency plans in the event of a disaster. HIPAA – The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act focuses on three key criteria for handling Protected Health Information (PHI): availability, [...]
HIPAA – The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act focuses on three key criteria for handling Protected Health Information (PHI): availability, confidentiality and integrity. This blog post focuses on availability as it applies to HIPAA applications and HIPAA data. Availability means that PHI is always available, accessible and never lost. When a patient arrives at [...]
Last Chance: RSVP to attend Online Tech’s New Ann Arbor, Michigan Data Center Open House – Friday (tomorrow) 3-7pm! Aside from ongoing data center tours, refreshments and wine, you’ll get the latest on IT compliance from a Certified HIPAA Practitioner (CHP), a health IT and HIPAA compliance attorney and PCI compliance experts. Come with questions [...]
When a company decides they want to transition to a private cloud, there are a few important steps they need to take to get started: In-house vs. outsource – The first step is to decide if you want to keep your IT in-house or outsource your IT services to a managed cloud or data center [...]
A decade ago, companies like SunGard grew very quickly by selling a solution most of us would call “cold site disaster recovery.” In essence, SunGard compiled a number of physical servers and compute capabilities, then leased these servers to many companies to be used in case of a disaster on a first-come, first-served basis. SunGard [...]
I’ve written several blog posts on how cloud computing changes disaster recovery. One of the most significant advantages to cloud computing is how it makes disaster recovery more cost-effective and lowers the bar for deploying comprehensive DR plans across a company’s entire IT infrastructure. Cloud computing delivers faster recovery times and multi-site availability at a fraction [...]
If you’ve been following the TRICARE HIPAA breach of PHI reported at the end of September, you’ll know that 4.9 million people were affected by the loss of data backup tapes under the Defense Department’s military healthcare program. Now a $4.9 billion lawsuit seeking class action status for those affected individuals hangs over the offenders’ [...]
Online Tech’s CEO Yan Ness has been selected to speak at 7×24 Exchange’s Fall Conference “Leveraging Innovation” in Phoenix, Arizona. According to 7x24exchange.org, the conference is designed for IT, data center, and disaster recovery professionals, network/telecommunication managers, computer technologists, facility or building managers, supervisors and engineers, vendors, consultants and anyone concerned with uninterrupted access to critical [...]
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
