| > | | | | Data Storage Challenges |
| | | | - The necessity to secure patient information to |
| FocusStor, Online Data Backup & Recovery ( | | | | meet HIPPA compliance laws. |
| the leading Canadian provider of disk-based backup | | | | - Growing demands to protect confidential patient |
| and recovery solutions for small businesses since | | | | health file data against loss and corruption. |
| 1985, today released their newest offsite storage | | | | - Ensuring healthcare providers can retrieve |
| software aimed at the healthcare and medical | | | | consolidated medical information on patients from a |
| industries. | | | | safe, centralized source. |
| In today's insecure world, cables become unplugged, | | | | - Organizing stored medical files for easy, instant |
| electronics fail daily, disks stop turning, viruses and | | | | access. |
| hackers burden businesses constantly, and regardless | | | | Healthcare Industry Trends |
| of specific backup procedures, electronic records will | | | | By monitoring industry trends, OSP can anticipate the |
| continue to be discarded and overwritten. Each year | | | | future data storage needs of the healthcare industry. |
| businesses loose billions of dollars due to data loss. | | | | Currently, the OSP team is reviewing the impact of |
| The factors used to determine the viability and | | | | these trends on data storage: |
| business continuity for an organization that has | | | | - Storing, long-term, medical history by symptom, |
| suffered from a significant system or data loss does | | | | gender, etc. to provide insights regarding collective |
| not rely strictly on the ability to replace hardware or | | | | health patterns. |
| rebuild infrastructure. In most cases continued | | | | - Meeting the demands of a highly mobile baby |
| success relies heavily on the ability to quickly and | | | | boomer population and their need for easily moving |
| successfully recover business critical data. Considering | | | | their medical history with them. |
| it's one of the key deciding factors in whether your | | | | - Physicians needing to reduce the time it takes to |
| company will remain in business, shouldn't a company | | | | access stored data to free up more time for |
| be prepared to make the needed data protection | | | | increasing patient care schedules. |
| decisions up front? Indeed, they should, and that is | | | | - Obesity prevalence rates of 15% to 19% in more |
| why FocusStor offers a highly secure data back up | | | | than 18 US states creating formidable increases in |
| technology. | | | | diabetes - causing medical researchers to seek |
| FocusStor is designed for companies with remote | | | | access to data generated and stored by multiple |
| offices, as well as small and mid-sized businesses, | | | | healthcare providers whose collective information |
| that have primarily relied on in-house tape or disk | | | | could identify common traits and in turn, a path to |
| backups to protect their data. FocusStor guarantees | | | | cures. |
| recovery of all business-critical data and enables | | | | - Aggressive hacker infiltration, identify theft and |
| companies to return operations to the state they | | | | viruses that continue to corrupt vital patient health |
| were in immediately prior to a data-loss event. | | | | data. |
| More specifically, in the healthcare industry, data | | | | FocusStor recommends that all healthcare providers |
| storage challenges are obvious and business | | | | join the thousands of healthcare businesses who |
| continuity and redundancy plans become a necessity. | | | | have decided to safeguard their data using |
| Below are some studies on the matter: | | | | FocusStor’s backup solution. |