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 [...]
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 [...]
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In addressing the backup issue, we usually find ourselves relying on IT to monitor the backup logs, or a designated staff member who is responsible for rotating and transporting the media off-site. This increases the chance of an unsuccessful backup job. With a proven and cost effective online backup solution, you’re assured of summarized daily [...]