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HIPAA Guidelines: Understanding HIPAA Compliance on the Cloud

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Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) mandates industry-wide standards for protection and confidential handling of the electronic healthcare information for electronic billing and other processes. In order to maintain the HIPAA Privacy regulations, the Healthcare providers and organizations must develop and follow certain procedures to ensure the confidentiality and security of the Protected Health Information(PHI). The ‘Guidance on HIPAA and Cloud Computing’ released in 2016, by the US Government of Health and Human Services(HSS) provides information on maintaining HIPAA compliance while using cloud computing services for storing and managing ePHI. Based on this, the HealthCare organization and Cloud Service Provider(CSP) is directly liable for meeting both the business associate agreement(BSS) and compliance with the associated requirements of the HIPAA rules.

Ramping up Telecommute Capacity

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Among the COVID-19 guidance provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for business is to prepare for “social distancing” to minimize exposure. While not every job is eligible for telecommuting, many are, and this strategy can be an effective way for businesses to offer flexibility to their employees while allowing important work to continue.

Top 4 Best Practices for Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) Implementation

Cloud Computing

Hackers attack and continue to be hostile to many organizations. Despite all security measures like regular vulnerability tests, deployment of encryption technology, etc., today’s organizations are highly prone to IT security breaches. It’s high time to strategize and anticipate a defense mechanism to protect their system and data. Nowadays, many organizations are turning their eye to Multi Factor Authentication or MFA for securing their complex and nexus environment. In this blog, we will discuss the top 4 best practices to be followed while implementing the MFA solution.

Envision Your Cloud Journey with Cloud Assessment

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Helping Customers Chart their path to Cloud

We understand that successfully migrating to the cloud is not an easy task and requires a thorough assessment of the company’s requirements before we can create a relevant migration roadmap. Although adopting a cloud mindset is a good start, and assessing the cloud readiness of the organization is very important. It helps to find existing organizational gaps that need to be addressed.

Today’s Reality: Continuous Security & Compliance

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The Need to shift from Incident Security to Continuous Security

Compliance with industry regulations alone cannot protect businesses from security breaches. Changes in the cloud infrastructure are rapid, so an automatic and sustainable approach to cloud security must be in place.

Cloud Vendors Offering Assistance During COVID-19

Cloud Computing

A couple weeks ago, I published Ramping Up Telecommute Capacity. In that article, I mentioned that several cloud vendors were offering some incentives to organizations to help them take advantage of their services to support telecommuting and other changes to IT operations.

COVID-19 Highlights the New Interoperability Imperative for Healthcare Information Technology

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COVID-19 is a national health care crisis that requires efforts by every part of the U.S. healthcare sector to combat. Researchers, clinicians, policy makers, and others are asking the right questions to try and formulate the best strategy to mitigate the impacts of the crisis. They want to help the public by determining where and how should we strengthen containment measures as well as where and when can we re-open economically vital businesses. After two decades of massive investment by the public and private sectors in healthcare information technology, however, they remain hamstrung by a lack of meaningful interoperability and access to data.

The Business of Healthcare after COVID-19 Is Gone

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Whether it is next week, next month, or next year, affairs in the US will open back up and return to a state of relative calm. But most agree that business as we know it will change significantly. Very few entities, be they small businesses or publicly traded international conglomerates, can weather repeated impacts of something like the COVID epidemic. And healthcare businesses in the United States have already been doubly affected, as they face the same financial and operational stresses that all businesses do, while simultaneously bearing the burden of day-to-day combat and execution just to get everyone through to the other side of the storm. Nobody wants to see and experience another mass-impact event such as this, but there will be more, and whether the next one is another health pandemic, a financial crash, or international conflict, there are things every smart organization will be doing to pivot their business to improve and prepare. Some of the changes will be seen relatively quickly, while others will still take some time, but one thing is almost certain, COVID-19 has become a tipping point from which there will be no simple return to “business as usual”.

Return to Revenue: Accelerate Your Return to Revenue

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Proactively communicating with patients and the extended health community is now an absolutely essential part of business for healthcare organizations of all sizes. Surveys have indicated that 3 out of 4 consumers today will consider switching providers based on a single negative experience. In the midst of COVID-19 uncertainty, changing regulations, protocols, and financial circumstances, people need to know what to expect now more than ever before. What follows is a list of what should be considered essential business for health entities seeking to service, retain, and improve relations with patients in a greater capacity.

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