Events

HIMSS 2013 will be held in New Orleans from March 3-7, and Online Tech will be exhibiting our HIPAA hosting solutions at booth #1369. Held at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, the keynote speakers include the 42nd President of the U.S., Bill Clinton and Eric J. Topol of the Scripps Research Institute. This year’s HIMSS 13 will feature topics such as:

• Meaningful Use
• Telehealth
• Healthcare IT Adoption
• Preparing for an OCR Audit
• Mobile Apps
• Health Information Exchange (HIE)

Take a look at the HIMSS 13 Schedule-at-a-Glance for more details on the keynotes and sessions they have planned. Another featured event includes the closing keynote debate between speakers James Carville, Political Consultant, and Karl Rove, Fox News Contributor & Wall Street Journal Columnist. Find out about other HIMSS 13 keynote speakers here. More about the conference:

Last year, Online Tech attended the Las Vegas 2012 HIMSS conference which drew in more than 30,000 attendees, including healthcare industry professionals and exhibitors from around the nation. Our HIPAA hosting solutions for healthcare and related organizations include:

• HIPAA compliant colocation with high availability power and offsite backup options.
• HIPAA compliant dedicated servers with fully managed services.
• HIPAA compliant private clouds with fully managed services.
• HIPAA compliant disaster recovery with comprehensive cloud-based solutions.

Our HIPAA renewal audit conducted recently measured our hosting solutions, environment and staff against the newest OCR HIPAA Audit Protocol, developed as a result of the Office for Civil Right’s initial pilot audit program conducted on random covered entities nationwide. The protocol is a list of criteria and auditing guidelines for independent auditors to use to determine if a business associate or covered entity is HIPAA compliant. Online Tech is an official gold corporate HIMSS member and one of the first and few independently HIPAA audited hosting providers that will sign a business associate agreement (BAA) with all of our healthcare clients.

About HIMSS

HIMSS is a cause-based, not-for-profit organization exclusively focused on providing global leadership for the optimal use of information technology (IT) and management systems for the betterment of healthcare. Founded 52 years ago, HIMSS and its related organizations are headquartered in Chicago with additional offices in the United States, Europe and Asia. HIMSS represents nearly 50,000 individual members, of which more than two thirds work in healthcare provider, governmental and not-for-profit organizations.

HIMSS also includes over 570 corporate members and more than 225 not-for-profit partner organizations that share our mission of transforming healthcare through the effective use of information technology and management systems. HIMSS frames and leads healthcare practices and public policy through its content expertise, professional development, research initiatives, and media vehicles designed to promote information and management systems' contributions to improving the quality, safety, access, and cost-effectiveness of patient care.

To learn more about HIMSS, please visit www.himss.org.