Hippa compliance on remote servers

[Roy Bloom]

Just ran into a problem with HIPPA compliance if I store data on a commercial server along with backup went from 20 dollars a month to 800.

It appears that there is inexpensive software to make everything on the sever HIPPA compliant. Even encrytion of data, auditing, etc. Is there something I am missing here to make it such a dramatic jump? This was from RackSpace.

Thx

[drtech]

Wow! $800 a month!?

For that price, setup your own secure remote server at home and use secure and encrypted SSL to transfer your files for remote backup. This is done with two Linux servers...one at home and one at your office. They can be physical machines or virtual machines. I do it at my office and once it is setup, you hardly ever have to think about it again. I could help you set it up if you have a little time a patients initially, you will love it long term as you don't have to pay for anything but your internet in both locations which you probably already use anyway!

Or another easier way is to buy two NAT storage units like this:

http://www.google.com/products/catalog? ... 80&bih=939#

(one at home and one at your office) and they have a version of Linux built into them with minimal setup. ( you must also buy the hard drives to fill these, so it costs more than a simple older computer, but much easier to setup.)

[wjstarck]

...or just use Carbonite. My backups run about $150 a month, but I may be backing up more than most...

[Roy Bloom]

I go to 40 offices now. i can not get T1 at home and set up a blade server. i run oprdental on a tablet and want to remote VPN at the offices and let someone else take care of backup and security. I only Keep what the DEA requires for patient info, the tx performedn the Sedation record , the offce location where the paper recuds are kept and the pano. I do not know if I have to follow hippa on a server.