Liveblogging HIMSS13: Secure Analytics in the Cloud

Online Tech is exhibiting our HIPAA hosting solutions, including HIPAA compliant clouds, for the healthcare industry at HIMSS 13 in New Orleans this year! Tune into our Twitter and follow our blog for updates on the latest HIMSS 13 news.

If you’re at HIMSS 13, visit booth #1369 to say hi or schedule a free one-on-one consultation with a panel of health IT experts.

Day three kicks off with a workshop on cloud computing data security – health IT law expert, Attorney Brian Balow from Dickinson Wright is featured on the panel, and will be speaking about mobile healthcare device policies.

Secure Analytics in the Cloud
Enabling Benefits with Manageable Risks

When: Wednesday, March 6th, 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. CST
Where: Intel Hospitality Suite, Riverside Meeting Room #215

Description: Join this diverse panel of industry experts in the healthcare, legal, privacy, research and security fields as they discuss the key trends and benefits surrounding big data and analytics in the cloud, and explore associated privacy and security risks. Learn practical strategies for how to use security to enable business value to be realized, while keeping risks of security incidents to a manageable level.

About Brian Balow, Attorney, Dickinson Wright

Brian Balow is a member of the law firm Dickinson Wright PLLC, where he concentrates his practice in the areas of information technology, healthcare law, and intellectual property. Brian has worked with Fortune 100 clients over the last fifteen years on Information Technology-related matters, including the drafting and negotiation of agreements, formulation and implementation of policies and procedures for the management of IT (including outsourcing-related issues), counseling and advising on privacy and data security issues, and assisting clients in favorably resolving disputes with IT vendors (including disputes with the BSA and SIIA).

More recently, Brian has spoken and written extensively on healthcare IT and telemedicine issues (including HIPAA/HITECH issues). In 2012, Brian presented on social media in healthcare issues at HIMSS12 in Las Vegas and to the National Council of State Boards of Nursing in Idaho, on regulation of mHealth technology at the SoCal HIMSS Health IT Innovation Summit in Yorba Linda, California, and on BYOD issues at the HIMSS mHealth Summit in Washington, DC. In December of 2011, Brian contributed the chapter entitled “Allocation and Mitigation of Liability” to the ABA Health Law Section’s “E-Health, Privacy, and Security Law” treatise.

Brian is a 1988 cum laude graduate of the University of Georgia School of Law, where he was twice a scholarship recipient and was Managing Editor of the Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law. Following graduation, Brian served as a judicial law clerk to the Hon. James Harvey in the United States District Court, Eastern District of Michigan.
Read more about mobile app and device security in our Mobile Security white paper, or read our HIPAA Compliant Hosting white paper for a complete guide to technical, physical and administrative guidelines to achieving HIPAA compliance.