📅 - Recently, Hostway Services Inc., a managed hosting provider, announced they have become HIPAA accredited. HIPAA or Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act is legislation providing data security and privacy provisions for those in charge of medical data. Hostway has now shown their commitment to providing secure and trusted services for those in need of HIPAA-compliance solutions.
Hostway is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois and offers web hosting, along with email services. They also offer more advanced solutions, such as managed servers, private clouds and hybrid cloud hosting. About 500,000 customers use Hostway services today. The company went through many independent audits before recently achieving HIPAA compliance.
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