The passage of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act HIPAA in 1996 stood as a great victory for patient civil rights and confidentiality The law required the Secretary of the U S Department of Health and Human Services HHS to develop regulations protecting the privacy and security of patients sensitive health information
Hackers are increasingly breaching data of medical practices of all sizes In 2021 healthcare data breaches impacted 45 million people a 9 million person increase from the previous year What does that mean for your practice It means you need Healthcare IT Services more than ever to protect patient and practice information
Whether you re backing up photos from your phone to the cloud or saving proprietary business information the data has to be stored somewhere Where does the backed up data go Unless your business has a dedicated server room your information is stored at an off site data center
When I was growing up my grandmother had a black rotary dial telephone As cordless phones became popular in the 1980 s my grandmother got one for a grand total of one day She asked for her rotary phone to be returned While she didn t live to see cell phones I am sure she would have kept that rotary phone
As a business owner you have a lot of responsibilities and options especially when it comes to technology Do you move data storage to the cloud Which hardware should we purchase for new employees When is it time to update software How do we prevent data breaches If you re looking to answer these and other tech related questions let s talk
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