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HIPAA Compliance with Online Data Storage

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Maintaining HIPAA Compliance with Online Data Storage

Healthcare organizations today face the dual challenge of leveraging online data storage solutions while ensuring compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). This article explores the importance of maintaining HIPAA compliance with online data storage, highlights common challenges, offers best practices, and recommends popular tools to help your organization navigate this complex landscape.

What is HIPAA?

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is a United States law enacted in 1996 to protect patients’ sensitive health information from being disclosed without their consent or knowledge. HIPAA sets national standards for electronic health care transactions and national identifiers for providers, health insurance plans, and employers.

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WeR1 v Cyberlynk: Ethics and Danger in the Cloud

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A recent lawsuit involving WeR1 World Network and CyberLynk Network brings up the issue of ethics, responsibility and danger in the much hyped “Cloud” storage utility that has been agressively pushed by most of the major vendors in recent times.

The gist of the case is that a disgruntled employee of Cyberlynk managed to log back into the Cyberlynk network after he was fired and proceeded to delete about 304GB of data which happened to include an entire season of the TV show called “Zodiac Island” produced by WeR1 network.

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