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There is no shortage of security and compliance acronyms in today’s IT environment. You know the importance of HIPAA compliance within your practice, but for your service providers, there are also HiTRUST, SAS, SOC, SSAE and PCI standards that regulate how they handle your sensitive data to keep it secure at all times.

When you are evaluating service providers that have access to your sensitive data, it is important to assess their security protocols and review their certifications.

A recent telecom carrier outage in the Midwest caused healthcare practices up to 12 hours of downtime. Unable to treat patients or access records, this outage highlighted the importance of proper telecom design for healthcare organizations.

Clients who come to Netgain from other cloud platforms often say their provider didn’t address telecom as part of the cloud offering. While it’s not a direct service of the cloud provider, telecom can make or break the user experience and the overall cloud strategy.

Students across the country are cramming for finals, planning graduation parties, and preparing themselves for their first “real world” jobs. The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) projects nearly 2 million students will graduate with their bachelor’s degree as the Class of 2017.     

Most of these students, known as Generation Z, were born in the late 90’s and early 2000s, directly following the millennials.