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Symantec Finds Clouds are Rolling in for Healthcare | Symantec Connect - 0 views

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Privacy security compliance HIPAA Best Practice

shared by sandy ingram on 30 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • best practices are being swept under the rug. Only 31 percent of respondents archived according to HIPPA recommendations
  • Another third stored archives in a single data center and only slightly more (36 percent) stored archives in datacenters located less than 100 miles apart.
  • Hosted solutions offer an attractive alternative to the healthcare industry. Such solutions ease the burden on in-house IT, which is typically characterized by few people, limited dollars and huge workloads.
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  • These problems are becoming more of an issue, too, as the amount of data stored by providers is rapidly and unceasingly increasing.
  • Still, a few providers aren’t quite sold. The survey showed there are three main concerns from those not considering hosted solutions. First, they aren’t sold on hosted solutions’ security. Forty-three percent of respondents shared this concern, which is a common concern with the cloud. Second, 32 percent of respondents said they aren’t sure about the performance. Providers can’t afford down time, and this is a new solution with which they don’t have experience. The third concern, shared by 31 percent, is the cloud is too costly.
  • sandy ingram on 30 Mar 11
     
    At HIMSS' annual conference this year, Symantec sponsored a survey to find out what the forecast is like for the healthcare IT industry. The consensus: cloudy. In general, the survey showed healthcare providers are beginning to see some of the needs and problems with their current situations. Of the 568 healthcare professionals who responded to the survey, 55 percent said disaster recovery keeps them up at night. This is understandable since a healthcare system is subject to HIPAA and other legal and regulatory requirements as well as having to support complex infrastructures. What makes the situation worse is that many providers don't have a solid plan. Of the systems most likely to have full-proof disaster recovery plans, only 31 percent do.
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Cracking Down on ID Theft: A Case for Cloud Computing - 0 views

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Privacy security compliance Best Practice PCI-DSS HIPPA Red Flags Rule

shared by sandy ingram on 01 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • The PCI Security Standards Council created the criteria, but the five leading credit card companies each maintain their own compliance and enforcement programs
  • and each has its own way to validate compliance.
  • In many cases, banks or merchant service providers are now sending letters to organizations that have smaller payment card transaction levels and asking them to prove they are compliant by completing a self-assessment questionnaire,
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  • If an organization can meet all of the requirements of PCI, it's going to be in great shape when it comes to HIPAA security compliance,"
  • The PCI standard applies only to those systems and applications used for storage, processing or transmission of cardholder data,
  • any organization that accepts credit and/or debit cards must comply with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard, but many hospitals and clinics have overlooked this obligation, says security expert Tom Walsh
  • Red Flags Compliance
  • sandy ingram on 01 Apr 11
     
    In many cases, banks or merchant service providers are now sending letters to organizations that have smaller payment card transaction levels and asking them to prove they are compliant by completing a self-assessment questionnaire, he explains.
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