{"id":18,"date":"2011-08-03T10:04:13","date_gmt":"2011-08-03T10:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eclipsepracticemanagementsoftware.com\/blog\/?p=18"},"modified":"2011-10-28T13:21:46","modified_gmt":"2011-10-28T17:21:46","slug":"safety-hipaa-in-the-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/eclipsepracticemanagementsoftware.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/03\/safety-hipaa-in-the-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"Safety &#038; HIPAA in the Cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s unusual for a month to go by without a serious breach of some company\u2019s or government\u2019s data. For example, according to the New York Times,\u00a0records for 1.7 million patients, staff members, and contractors at a NYC hospital were stolen recently. \u00a0Serious issues exist with regard to data security and privacy. Given HIPAA, these concerns are especially problematic for health care. An article in the January, 2011 issue of <em>Communications of the ACM<\/em> \u2013Computer Science\u2019s equivalent of the <em>New England Journal of Medicine<\/em>, noted that<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe problem of data privacy in general is of course well known, but cloud computing magnifies it\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>along with<em> <\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cPolicies are a first step, but alone they are insufficient to prevent cloud service providers from abusing the data entrusted to them.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>All other considerations aside\u00a0&#8212; and there are many\u00a0on both sides of the equation\u00a0&#8212; given the fines for HIPAA violations, I\u2019m not ready to commit my data to someone else&#8217;s computers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s unusual for a month to go by without a serious breach of some company\u2019s or government\u2019s data. For example, according to the New York Times,\u00a0records for 1.7 million patients, staff members, and contractors at a NYC hospital were stolen &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/eclipsepracticemanagementsoftware.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/03\/safety-hipaa-in-the-cloud\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cloud-computing"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Safety &amp; HIPAA in the Cloud - ECLIPSE Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/eclipsepracticemanagementsoftware.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/03\/safety-hipaa-in-the-cloud\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Safety &amp; HIPAA in the Cloud - ECLIPSE Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"It\u2019s unusual for a month to go by without a serious breach of some company\u2019s or government\u2019s data. 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