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Scared of HIPAA? Don\u2019t be. It represents huge opportunities for the IT world.<\/p>\n

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April Sage | Director Healthcare IT<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

That was the message from April Sage, Director of Healthcare IT for Online Tech, when she joined Karl Palachuk on his \u2018Odd Tuesdays\u2018 podcast yesterday. (Find the replay here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

Palachuk invited Sage to join his bi-weekly show because its primary audience \u2013 managed service providers \u2013 has been engaged in a debate about whether HIPAA <\/a>regulations and the HITECH Act make working in the healthcare space \u201cso big and so complicated and so scary\u201d that it\u2019s best to just run away.<\/p>\n

Sage counters that the rapidly growing health IT industry creates \u201ca wonderful opportunity\u201d and that while understanding HIPAA regulations \u201cdoes require a bit of homework to understand the compliance rules, they\u2019re not so different than the normal security protocols that one would find to protect any sensitive data.\u201d<\/p>\n

Here is more of the sage advice delivered by April (pun credit: Palachuk):<\/em><\/p>\n

“For smaller businesses, the healthcare space is both a great opportunity and a significant burden. The smaller businesses really have the kind of agility to react to the disruptive innovation that the healthcare industry is screaming for in order to figure out how on Earth we are going to lower the cost of healthcare, but also have better outcomes for our patients. On the other side, the cost of compliance and those external audits and making sure all of those safeguards are in place \u2013 not just at any point in time, but on an ongoing basis \u2013 is really significant. We find that we end up in very close partnerships with our IT service providers so that we make sure we clearly understand who is addressing which of the safeguards and going through the complete list to make sure that we have all of our bases covered. We find that that\u2019s a huge relief for our clients. We end up with some very enterprising physicians who identify a need in the healthcare system and suddenly become founders of mobile healthcare apps. They understand their business incredibly well, but they don\u2019t understand how to keep the IT infrastructure safe. This is a place where an IT consultant can be a huge benefit to those people, by connecting them in a network of partners that can make sure the safeguards are in place.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Listen to the full podcast <\/a>to hear Sage also discuss the Department of Health and Human Services clarifying responsibility and accountability issues, the importance of understanding the Business Associates Agreement, and the kinds of clients that Online Tech is able to assist with its range of hosting services \u2013 from colocation <\/a>to managed dedicated servers<\/a> to encrypted cloud<\/a>, all with the main focus on handling the security and compliance <\/a>safeguards that are required for sensitive data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Scared of HIPAA? Don\u2019t be. It represents huge opportunities for the IT world. That was the message from April Sage, Director of Healthcare IT for Online Tech, when she joined Karl Palachuk on his \u2018Odd Tuesdays\u2018 podcast yesterday. (Find the replay here.) Palachuk invited Sage to join his bi-weekly show because its primary audience \u2013 managed service providers \u2013 has been engaged in a debate about whether HIPAA regulations and the HITECH Act make working in the healthcare space \u201cso big and so complicated and so scary\u201d that it\u2019s best to just run away. Sage counters that the rapidly growing health IT industry creates \u201ca wonderful opportunity\u201d and that while understanding HIPAA regulations \u201cdoes require a bit of homework to understand the compliance rules, they\u2019re not so different than the normal security protocols that one would find to protect any sensitive data.\u201d Here is more of the sage advice delivered by April (pun credit: Palachuk): “For smaller businesses, the healthcare space is both a great opportunity and a significant burden. The smaller businesses really have the kind of agility to react to the disruptive innovation that the healthcare industry is screaming for in order to figure out how on Earth…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"other_category":[],"class_list":["post-2815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nSage advice: Healthcare space 'a great opportunity and a significant burden' | OTAVA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.otava.com\/blog\/sage-advice-healthcare-space-a-great-opportunity-and-a-significant-burden\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sage advice: Healthcare space 'a great opportunity and a significant burden'\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Scared of HIPAA? 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