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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,…
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Are Security and Privacy Concerns Driving Cloud Adoption?
While only an intriguing concept just a decade ago, cloud computing is now growing at a rate exceeding any early predictions. In fact, according to a study quoted in a…
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5 Things About Flash Storage You May Not Know
You may have heard about flash storage, also known as Solid State Drive (SSD). Flash storage is known for being incredibly fast and offers increased performance, consistency, and reliability. These…
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Netgain Accepts ALS Ice Bucket Challenge
This past week many Netgainers accepted the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge from our friends at GeoComm! The water was cold, but all in all we had a great time participating…