HIPAA causes more healthcare facilities to secure patients records, documents off site
HIPAA Weekly Advisor, May 9, 2005
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Spending on information-technology systems nationally will likely reach $417 billion this year and could increase to nearly $500 billion within the next three years, according to data from IDC, a MA-based consulting company specializing in information technology (IT).
A portion of that money will go toward IT security services that will help organizations meet the requirements of HIPAA and Sarbanes-Oxley, reported the Winston-Salem Journal. That means more healthcare providers-particularly who that can't afford to completely overhaul their systems to offer 100% protection-will store their documents off site.
Storage companies have already started seeing a boost in business. For example, according to the Winston-Salem Journal, the data storage company Data-Chambers LLC has seen a 300% increase in business since last fall.
"Let's face it, data is growing," Nicholas Kottyan, Data-Chambers' chief executive officer, told the paper. "We're seeing just a significant explosion in the amount of data being retained." And people in the industry don't expect it to slow down anytime soon.
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