WHAT IS HIPAA?

HIPAA is the acronym for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act that was passed by Congress in 1996.  HIPAA does the following:

• Provides the ability to transfer and continue health insurance coverage for millions of American workers and their families when they change or lose their jobs;
• Reduces health care fraud and abuse;
• Mandates industry-wide standards for health care information on electronic billing and other processes; and
• Requires the protection and confidential handling of protected health information¹

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On May 12th, the world has seen the biggest cyber-attack in Internet history! WannaCry, a ransomware worm/virus spread over the world infecting more than 200.000 systems.Read More

TO SAAS OR NOT TO SAAS?

Today with cloud computing, every segment of the technology industry is changed dramatically and ISVs are no exception. Not so long ago, buying software involved a high one-off purchase cost for a solution that you could install on your local computer or server. With more companies preferring to use SaaS applications rather than deal with the time and expense of implementing and maintaining on-premise software, ISV`s are transitioning from an old model of packaged software to SaaS. SaaS comes with added value, it`s browser based and constantly evolving.Read More

ON-DEMAND WORKFORCE AS A FUTURE OF WORKING 

Mobility and remote working are changing rapidly the landscape of the business today. People are opting more and more for the freedom to work where and for whom they choose. As of May 2015, 15.5 million people in the U.S. were self-employed, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics—an increase of roughly 1 million since May 2014. That number is expected to keep growing at a steady clip. By 2020, a separate study estimates that more than 40% of the American workforce, or 60 million people, will be independent workers—freelancers, contractors, and temporary employees.¹Read More

Last year, Microsoft announced they will stop with Azure RemoteApp. They plan to shut down the RemoteApp definitely by the end of August 2017 when they will launch a partnership with Citrix and to offer Citrix XenApp Express as a replacement. However, there is a small problem, Citrix`s software is still not available and new purchases of RemoteApp ended on the October 1^st 2016.Read More

The new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will take effect on the 25^th of May 2018.

This regulation has the goal to protect the European citizen’s personal data. This should be achieved by regulating what information is stored and how it’s processed on one hand and by improved security measures on the other hand.Read More