Cedar Rapids, Iowa: Involta announced today they have established a mutually beneficial technology partnership with Allscripts®, a leading provider of health information technology solutions. To better serve the company’s mission to build open, connected communities of health, Allscripts will leverage Involta’s nationwide footprint of world-class data center facilities and managed service offerings.

When it comes to data, you often hear the words privacy and security used interchangeably, but they’re actually two distinct concepts that are essential to preventing data breaches across all industries.

In our increasingly tech-forward world, security and compliance should be top of mind in every industry. The healthcare sector is no exception. In fact, strengthening healthcare cybersecurity is essential. Protecting data privacy, ensuring environments are secure and maintaining compliance is more critical than ever before. Protected health information (PHI) is just as valuable – if not more so – than personal financial information. Keeping this data secure is required by HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act), but many healthcare organizations lag behind when it comes to IT security.

The cloud isn’t a new concept anymore. It’s been around for years and in many ways, it has revolutionized the way we all do business. It’s no longer "nice" or "convenient" to have fast, secure and immediate access to the data you need. It’s essential.

Companies like Microsoft, Google and AWS have played key roles in advancing cloud infrastructure. By constantly testing, experimenting and expanding the possibilities of cloud computing, they’ve paved the way for more businesses to move forward with a digital-first approach.

Looking Back at 2017

How do you get out of reactive mode?

How do you align technology to the business to enhance organizational clarity, security and customer outcomes?

How do you align IT resources and priorities?

How do you effectively value – and communicate the value of – your services?

These are the kinds of questions that keep people in enterprise IT up at night.

In Involta’s experience, these questions have a three-pillar answer.

The cloud. No doubt your businesses is astute to the cloud and likely utilizes it for financial software, email applications, or components of your IT infrastructure. Cloud options available for commerce include public, private and the latest, hybrid. These options may leverage infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), back up as a service (BaaS), storage as a service (STaas) or most commonly software as a service (SaaS). With this array of possibilities, and the physical locations often a mystery, it’s not hard to envision where the term “cloud” originated.