About DidUBackUp

About HIPAA

In 1996, Congress passed the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act ("HIPAA").  HIPAA was designed to reduce the administrative costs of healthcare, to promote the confidentiality and portability of patient records, to develop standards for consistency in the health care industry, and to provide an incentive for electronic communications.

HIPAA applies to any health care providers, health plans and clearinghouses (collectively "Covered Entities") that electronically maintain or transmit health information pertaining to individuals.  Covered Entities must have appropriate measures that address the physical, technical and administrative components of patient data privacy.

With the exception of small health plans, all Covered Entities must have data security standards in place by April 21, 2005. Small health plans are exempted until April 21, 2006.

DidUBackUp online backup helps your health organization meet HIPAA compliance requirements.

• All data, including patient and billing records are encrypted before they leave your computers and are never accessible without your encryption key.  In addition, data transfers over the Internet are encrypted using SSL technology. 
• Encrypted data is stored in state-of-the-art redundant data centers.
• Backups and restores are automated, eliminating the need for manual data handling.
• Detailed logs store information of each file backed up and restored, creating audit trails.
• CDs and DVDs of data are available for additional archiving.

How valuable to your business is the data stored on your computers?

What would happen if you lost that data? Could you recreate it? Even if you could recreate it, how much time would this process take? How much money would it cost you in lost business and lost opportunities?  And finally, would your business even survive? 

If your business is like most businesses today, your computer data is vital to your everyday operations.  In fact, information is often regarded as the lifeblood of today's businesses.  Information such as your:

• Customer Records
• Emails and Contact Information
• Financial Data
• Key Databases
• Important Documents

Unfortunately, your servers, computers and laptops and the data that they store are vulnerable to an ever-growing list of  misfortunes.

Viruses, Hackers and Spyware

Computer viruses, hackers and spyware can reek havoc on a company's network and data infrastructure.  Viruses are getting more dangerous, spyware is getting more malicious and hackers more brazen.

Hard Drive and Hardware Failures

While hard drives are constantly getting better, faster, cheaper and are storing more data, they are still extremely susceptible to failure.  In fact, all hard drives will eventually fail as they are not  designed to last forever.  And of course, unfortunately, you never know when they will fail.  Power surges, electrostatic shocks, circuit board shorts and head crashes can all wipe out the data that is stored on your hard drives.   

Natural Disasters and Theft

You probably have business interruption insurance that will protect your physical assets from disasters such as fires and floods, hurricanes and earthquakes.  But what is protecting your data?  Anything that can damage your office can destroy your computers and the information that they store.   And on top of natural disasters, we live in a world today where terrorism and theft must be considered.

Human Error

Even the greatest of employees aren't perfect.  Sooner or later, by accident, an important document will get deleted, a spreadsheet overwritten or a crucial database corrupted.

Backing up is the way to protect your business's valuable data!

Hopefully you now have an understanding of the importance of ensuring that your company's data is always safe and always available to you. Now, find out why online backup is the easiest, safest and most affordable way to protect your data.

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