Brian Ellis
Social Media & The Medical Practice: An Introduction
As with all businesses, medical practices face competition from other offices in their area and must differentiate themselves by portraying value and quality to their prospective clients. Your practice’s marketing plan must be centered on helping prospective and current patients best understand how your practice works, what services you provide, and act as a non-invasive [...]
Offsite Backups On the Right Track?
HIPAA requires the ability to establish and maintain reasonable and appropriate administrative, technical, and physical safeguards to ensure integrity, confidentiality, and availability of the information. Every day, thousands of users lose critical data to malware, computer mishaps, and disaster situations. From our earliest experiences with computers, we have been told to make back up copies [...]
Forward Thinking For Your Back-up Solution
HIPAA and Your Back-up Solution
164.308 Administrative safeguards (7)(ii)(A) Data backup plan (Required). Establish and implement procedures to create and maintain retrievable exact copies of electronic protected health information.
A recent survey stated that only 37 percent of companies that back up their data actually test its integrity and recoverability. And about 77 percent of that group fail to restore their [...]
