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Ten Essentials to Look for in a HIPAA Compliant Hosting Company
By Gil Vidals, , HIPAA Blog, HIPAA Hosting

Ten Essentials to Look for in a HIPAA Compliant Hosting Company

Dear Healthcare Provider, Have you ever realized that a HIPAA compliant hosting company can actually facilitate at least two important aspects of your patient care?  Think about it; an effective HIPAA host promotes: Proactive care –  By providing a highly responsive environment, a HIPAA host actually enables the high data availability and timely access of patient data and critical... Continue reading
The Future of Healthcare: IoT, 5G, & Managed Security
By Gil Vidals, , HIPAA Blog

The Future of Healthcare: IoT, 5G, & Managed Security

In this final week of National Cybersecurity Awareness month, we’ll look closer at the Internet of Things (IoT) with a particular focus on what this means for cloud, HIPAA, and the future of healthcare. Two trends will be especially impactful: the rise of 5G, and the growth of managed security and cloud.  Where We Are... Continue reading
Securing IoMT for Healthcare
By Gil Vidals, , HIPAA Blog

Securing IoMT for Healthcare

We live in an amazing time, one in which a growing number of sophisticated, ‘Internet of Medical Things’ (IoMT) are facilitating critical treatments to improve patient health. Consider just two: difficult-to-monitor, chronic conditions like diabetes and heart failure are benefitting from “smarter” insulin pumps and pacemakers – both aided by real-time, remote monitoring and feedback... Continue reading
Week 2 of National Cybersecurity Awareness Month
By Gil Vidals, , HIPAA Blog

Week 2 of National Cybersecurity Awareness Month

No doubt, 2020 has disturbed the status quo in numerous ways, impacting our work, schooling, and social gatherings – even the way we receive our healthcare.  And while the pandemic has hastened a transition to increased virtualized care and telehealth, a recent analysis notes how this change was already well underway, even before Covid-19 was... Continue reading
Week 1 of National Cybersecurity Month
By Gil Vidals, , HIPAA Blog

Week 1 of National Cybersecurity Month

If You Connect It, Protect It October is National Cybersecurity Month, and ‘If you connect it, protect it’ is the theme for week #1. (With over 90% of the US population now on the internet, the theme easily might have been ‘When you connect it, protect it’). It’s an apt reminder, as cybercriminals are capitalizing on... Continue reading
How to Save a Life
By Gil Vidals, , HIPAA Blog

How to Save a Life

Sadly, it’s happened: As reported in the New York Times, on September 10 a woman fighting for her life was turned away from the University Hospital, Düsseldorf because hospital servers were infected with ransomware. With vital systems crashing, emergency treatment could not be administered. By the time the woman could receive services – in another hospital,... Continue reading
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