Venyu Blog

As the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMMS), opens its tenth annual conference today in Atlanta, GA, Venyu, a premier provider of commercial-grade, customizable solutions for data protection, availability and recovery, has announced at the conference a bold partnership with InSiteOne, a leading service provider of medical data archiving, storage, and disaster recovery solutions. The joint partnership is aimed squarely at helping healthcare institutions and providers better protect soaring amounts of image and non-image medical data.

For the uninitiated, HIMMS is a comprehensive healthcare-stakeholder membership organization exclusively focused on providing global leadership for the optimal use of information technology (IT) and management systems for the betterment of healthcare.  In other words, how do you leverage and optimize information technology solutions to transform healthcare management and delivery?

In the last five years, the amount of picture archiving and communications systems (PACs) imaging and traditional electronic data generated by the average sized hospital has grown by as much as 100%.  In parallel, HIPAA regulations structured around the privacy of patient records continue to dominate the headlines while directing the rules governing provider and patient record keeping. Coupled with the massive expansion of electronic protected health information (ePHI), HIPAA continues to be a pervasive force in the healthcare industry. In fact, in 2011, the certified electronic health records portion of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act or the “HITECH” Act widens the scope of privacy and security protections available under HIPAA while increasing enforcement and the potential legal liability for non-compliance. 

Along these lines watch this space for future developments that result from today’s partnership as Venyu and InSiteOne help to arm present-day providers with proven data protection and delivery tools that satisfy next-generation compliance, regulatory and electronic medical records controls. More information here: