Despite the icy roads and hail-snow hybrid weather, Michigan definitely isn’t getting hit as hard as the East Coast right now. Hurricane Sandy is hitting New York City hard, causing data center battery failures due to power shutdowns, according to News.CNET.com. The power shutdowns affected websites Gawker.com and Gizmodo.com as of yesterday afternoon. Many data […]
Read MoreWe are now entering the second year of federal health IT incentives and it is more important now than ever to take steps toward achieving HIPAA compliance and implementing an electronic health records (EHR) system. The federal government has already paid out more than $872 million in incentives to Medicaid/Medicare health organizations and individual providers […]
Read MoreAccording to the Ponemon Institute’s 2011 Benchmark Study on Patient Privacy and Data Security, data security breaches cost the U.S. healthcare industry an estimated $6.5 billion a year, up 10 percent from last year. About 29 percent of the providers reported that one consequence of data breaches was medical identity theft. The major causes of […]
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