All-flash storage has become a big trend not only in the consumer market with phones and laptops but also in the enterprise, with companies like EMC and Pure Storage dominating the news and the market. Does this mean traditional hard disk storage is dead? Not exactly. Two big benefits of this non-volatile memory are that it does not […]
Read MoreA recent blog by the HIPAA, HITECH & HIT legal blog of Fox Rothschild revealed a survey administered by the Office of Inspector General (OIG) of the U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services (HHS). The EHR (electronic health record) technology questionnaire is part of a study on fraud and abuse safeguards in EHRs. The […]
Read MoreIn a Symantec study of over 2,400 organizations globally, it was found that almost 80% of IT professionals are finding their data centers becoming increasingly complex. Lots of factors contribute to complexity within the in-house data center, and with their benefits come a slew of risks that could result in high costs for companies. Rise […]
Read MoreLast month the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) released their Information Supplement: PCI DSS E-Commerce Guidelines. These guidelines were focused on e-commerce merchants, and how to keep compliant whether outsourcing payment processing, keeping it in-house, or creating a hybrid solution. Within the supplement there were great guidelines for interaction between merchants and […]
Read MoreAs mentioned in a previous post, we here at Online Tech are looking to add another 25% to our already strong employee base. In the past few months we’ve been able to grow dramatically as we focus on our goal to add four new data centers in the next two years to our Ann Arbor […]
Read MoreDespite 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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