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HIPAA Security Checklist for Healthcare Organizations

According to HITRUSTAlliance.net’s report on U.S. healthcare data breaches affecting 500 or more individuals, A Look Back: U.S. Healthcare Data Breach Trends, the leading cause of breaches involved theft (54 percent) and the leading sources of breached PHI (protected health … Continue reading

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Ensuring Business Associate Compliance: Are You Doing Your Due Diligence?

Business associates should be required to provide some type of evidence or proof of compliance to their covered entities. – Healthcare Information Security Today: 2013 Outlook Survey This quote comes from a study that reports only 32 percent of survey … Continue reading

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Precautions with the HIPAA Cloud for Healthcare Software as a Service (SaaS) Companies

A recent Google search brought me to a health IT blog, Life as a Healthcare CIO, and the post entitled The Reality of SaaS. The author discusses whether or not SaaS/cloud computing is appropriate for EHR (electronic health record) hosting … Continue reading

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HIMSS 13: HHS Final Ruling Changes the Rules & Roles for HIPAA Hosting

At HIMSS 13, I attended a session, A Dialogue on HIPAA/HITECH Compliance: Considerations Now That the HITECH Rules Are Here that revealed insights into real-world applications of the new privacy and security rules, including the practical implications of the final … Continue reading

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Liveblogging HIMSS13: Secure Analytics in the Cloud

Online Tech is exhibiting our HIPAA hosting solutions, including HIPAA compliant clouds, for the healthcare industry at HIMSS 13 in New Orleans this year! Tune into our Twitter and follow our blog for updates on the latest HIMSS 13 news. … Continue reading

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Meet the Health IT Experts at HIMSS 13!

Attending the national healthcare conference HIMSS 13 in March? Sign up to schedule a free one-on-one consultation with our health IT panel of experts on topics such as: Legal implications of the final HIPAA omnibus rule Healthcare business continuity/disaster recovery … Continue reading

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How the Final Omnibus Rule Affects HIPAA Cloud Computing Providers

The long-awaited final modifications to the HIPAA Privacy, Security, Enforcement and Breach Rules were introduced Thursday. The 563-word document outlines the changes that were initially slated for implementation last summer (remember the omnibus rule?). So how do these modifications affect … Continue reading

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Planning HIMSS 13: Cloud Computing in Healthcare

Since it’s never too early to create a HIMSS 13 schedule, I’ve compiled a list of the top health IT (specifically cloud computing) education sessions to attend from the HIMSS 13 Annual Brochure (PDF). Visit the HIMSS 13 conference site … Continue reading

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Online Tech Exhibits HIPAA Hosting Solutions for mHealth

We’re headed to Washington, D.C. early December for the 4th Annual mHealth Summit hosted by mHIMSS at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center. Visit us at Booth #1031 and find out more about our HIPAA cloud hosting, HIPAA managed servers, HIPAA colocation and … Continue reading

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November Events: HIPAA Hosting in Michigan & the Midwest

Online Tech is gearing up for a November full of events – seminars, a webinar, a panel discussion, and conferences across the Midwest and Michigan. Today and tomorrow, Online Tech is exhibiting at the Indiana HIMSS Fall Technology Conference at … Continue reading

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