Healthcare organizations continue to adopt cloud computing for the many benefits that cloud provides their organization. According to a West Monroe Partner’s report, despite popular belief, healthcare organizations are farther along with cloud adoption compared to other organizations. In fact, 35% of the healthcare organizations that were surveyed held 50% or more of their…
Telemedicine has never been more important than it is currently. With the entire world fighting to slow the spread of COVID-19, hospitals in the United States are bracing for what could very well be an overwhelming influx of patients in the coming weeks. On a normal day, without a worldwide pandemic, hospitals are…
For the first time in 58 years, the HIMSS Global Health Conference & Exhibition was cancelled. The reason for the cancellation was unavoidable, but it leaves many organizations, who rely on the conference to share Health IT solutions, with a void in their efforts to connect with the industry. Due to the…
A Microsoft partner for more than 15 years, Project Hosts is an industry-leading expert in Azure and a Microsoft Gold Cloud Platform competent Cloud Service Provider (CSP) specializing in securing applications, data, and workloads in Microsoft Azure while ensuring compliance with regulatory standards, including HIPAA, HITRUST, ISO 27001, FedRAMP, and DoD IL…
Project Hosts will be exhibiting at HIMSS 2020 in Orlando Florida on March 9th through the 13th. Project Hosts has established themselves as a leader in hosted security and compliance. By achieving FedRAMP and DoD compliance, Project Hosts has set a precedence for meeting rigorous standards and on-going policy and procedure best practices.…
As companies in most verticals become more aware of the scalability, flexibility, security, backup and recovery capabilities of cloud computing, they are migrating to the cloud in growing numbers. The medical device industry is slow to migrate in comparison to other healthcare sectors, however, the aforementioned benefits outweigh the risks and experienced cloud solution providers…
When Health IT News asked Ellen Wiegand, Vice President and CIO at Virginia Mason Health System, what new technologies she was most excited about in regards to Healthcare IT, she began her answer by mentioning the industry’s most trending topics, AI and Process Automation. As she continued with her answer, she shifted to healthcare consumers…
The top cause of HIPAA breaches in the healthcare industry is due to insider threats. Oftentimes, this is accidental. Employees may snoop on medical information, send PHI to the wrong recipient, or click on a phishing email, posing a real threat to their company. No matter the reason, insider incidents continue to be the top…
When selecting a cloud provider, many organizations believe that they are receiving full coverage of compliance controls. In reality, many cloud providers only provide about 15% of controls needed to become compliant. That leaves your organization to cover the remaining 85% of controls. This takes a large sum of resources away from your end mission.…
Sometimes, when information is stored on the cloud, miscommunication and lack of coordination can cause confusion. Organizations begin to question who is responsible for IT security. A new HITRUST program is offering clarity on the issue. Hector Rodriquez and Matthew Datel, published an article on the HITRUST Alliance Blog, describing the new Shared Responsibility Program.…
