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Medical Records Briefing Strategies for Health Care Compliance

As information technology (IT) manager at Euclid Insurance in Itasca, IL, Dan Novak is responsible for helping the company support clients with health insurance renewals, particularly when it involves gathering private information about enrollees.

This is a task that’s easier said than done. And it’s costly for a healthcare entity to develop and maintain a security solution that’s safe and easy to use in an environment that’s full of potential privacy holes.

Euclid learned this the hard way after making a large initial investment in a company-run security system with encrypted data and code keys for Internet transmission—one that clients found too difficult to understand and use.

The domino effect strained not only clients and business, but also the company’s help desk and IT team.

This experience persuaded Novak that outsourcing the job to a vendor was a better course of action for Euclid. The return on investment one year later also convinced him that hospitals and other healthcare entities should consider outsourcing data storage.

Click here to learn more about outsourcing data storage.

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