Santa Clara County Medical Association Selects Axcient Armadillo as Official HIPAA Compliant Backup Solution
The Santa Clara County Medical Association, a leading medical association in the United States, selected Axcient as the official provider of data backup and retrieval services to its membership. AxcientÂ’s primary service is known as Axcient Armadillo.
Santa Clara, CA (PRWEB) November 1, 2004
The Santa Clara County Medical Association (SCCMA), a leading medical association in the United States, selected Axcient as the official provider of data backup and retrieval services to its membership. AxcientÂ’s primary service is known as Axcient Armadillo.
Healthcare providers have been directed to achieve compliance under federally mandated legislation to protect patient data. Patient record backup is required in the privacy and security section of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) that was passed by Congress.
"It was clearly the right decision to make for our members,” said William C. Parrish, SCCMA’s CEO. “They need to focus on caring for patients and not doing daily backups of their records and manually transporting them for offsite storage. Axcient Armadillo provides the automated backup protection that helps our member achieve HIPAA compliance in this area. Also compelling is the value. Other services routinely cost two to three times as much and often lacked the high security that is required by HIPAA, which Axcient Armadillo exceeds.”
“My office has been using Axcient Armadillo for almost two years very successfully, and I am pleased with the results” said Dr. Daniel J. Garnett, a noted thoracic surgeon. “I have been backing-up all my new records, but also I have been able to reclaim valuable office space by converting my older paper files. The other advantage is that now I have access to my patient records from the office, hospital, or home. This can be a significant benefit when I am called in for an emergency surgery or consultation.”
Through extensive backup expertise and superior design, Axcient Armadillo provides the most convenient and secure backup solution for less cost than most medical professional can do it for themselves. The traditional total cost of ownership includes: managing data capture, removal of tapes to an off-site facility, storage in a secure data center and accurate recovery. Add to this the cost of hardware, software, and tapes that must be replaced every few months, as well as ongoing maintenance fees and offsite tape storage fees, lost employee productivity due to a data disruption, employee time required to restore data, and the cost of retrieving tapes.
The HIPAA privacy and security requirements fall under the administrative simplification section of the law, which requires that healthcare providers ensure adequate backup and retrieval of patients records to ensure the privacy and security of protected health information. Medical groups, private practices, hospitals and health systems, routinely collect personal information that may include legal, actuarial, accounting, consulting, data aggregation or other financial and administrative services.
SCCMA members may utilize Axcient Armadillo to address the record retention and retrieval requirements under HIPAA. However, SCCMAÂ’s efforts do not preclude a member from establishing a separate contract with a supplier to address HIPAA compliance.
About Axcient
Axcient provides an affordable highly secure data backup and retrieval service called Axcient Armadillo. The companyÂ’s target customers are small and medium sized businesses that need to protect valuable digital assets like customer or financial records. Most notable of these market segments are medical, legal, and financial which are under the greatest pressure to attain compliance mandated by recent record privacy and retention legislation such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act and Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act. AxcientÂ’s offsite service is easy to use, quick, and totally secure. Axcient was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.
More information on Axcient, its services, and the impact of data loss on small and medium sized business can be found at www. axcient. com.
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