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We help medical providers keep their patient data secure and running smoothly on our servers so doctors may care for their patients, while we worry about the technology,? said CEO Christopher Faulkner, C I Host.

   
Bedford, TX ? Gearing up for the expected 2004 medical industry growth Online, C I Host (www.cihost.com), based in Texas, has taken giant steps to help health care organizations meet a rash of new regulations and to expand its customer base.
   
C I Host has received the rare federal HIPAA Certification, which allows the company to provide sensitive information technology services to more than two million health care organizations that must meet strict new patient and confidentiality regulations. C I Host core data center passed the tough ?SAS 70 test.?
   
“Health care services and applications are one of the fastest-growing industries online,” said CEO Christopher Faulkner, C I Host, Bedford, TX. ?U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reveals that during the next 20 years, nearly 20 percent of all new jobs created will happen in the medical field. As companies aim to comply with the new regulations, they?ll be searching for new ways to protect data online. By having this HIPAA Certification, the health care customers will feel more secure knowing that their data is protected with C I Host.?
   
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, known as HIPAA, was enacted in 1996 to provide greater efficiency in the health care system and to give patients tighter control over who has access to their medical records. The privacy restrictions associated with the new law went into effect April 14 of this year.
   
The law includes penalties of $100 to $25,000 for civil violations in which health care workers improperly release information about a patient and up to $250,000 and 10 years in prison for criminal cases. The federal government has received more than 2,700 complaints of HIPAA violations since the law went into effect, according to the Office for Civil Rights in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the agency responsible for enforcing the new law.

   
?We help medical providers keep their patient data secure and running smoothly on our servers so we worry about the information technology while they care for their patients,? said Faulkner. Many health care professionals, fearful that they will be violating the new law, need to know their access to sensitive, personal medical information is protected.?

   
C I Host, the world?s largest privately held hosting company doubled the size of its Los Angeles Data Center to 10,000 square feet, which will be be dedicated on December 2, 2003, with the theme: ?The Tech Boom Is Back In LA.? (www.MayoCommunications.com).

   
C I Host also has offices in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago and London. The all telco-grade, tier-1 data centers are wholly owned and operated by C I Host. The centers consist of redundant diesel generator backups and a temperature-controlled secure environment with fully redundant UPS capability. All server hardware is fully tested and configured for optimal performance. C I Host provides daily Web server backups and full fire protection guard against any data loss.

   
About CI Host: C I Host provides Web page hosting and server colocation for 200,000 individual consumers and companies in 182 countries worldwide. C I Host has won awards for its innovations customers like The Salvation Army, McDonalds, GTE, Del Monte Foods, Lay-Z-Boy, The U.S. Dept. of Commerce and Sierra Software.

   
The Texas global hosting giant creates business-class Web page hosting with the broadest portfolio of managed Web hosting services in the industry. C I Host has been consistently ranked among the top five Web hosting companies out of 16,000 hosts worldwide. CI Host?s 8,000+ resellers bring in more than 300 accounts a day for the company.    
   
   

We help medical providers keep their patient data secure and running smoothly on our servers so doctors may care for their patients, while we worry about the technology,? said CEO Christopher Faulkner, C I Host.

   
Bedford, TX ? Gearing up for the expected 2004 medical industry growth Online, C I Host (www.cihost.com), based in Texas, has taken giant steps to help health care organizations meet a rash of new regulations and to expand its customer base.
   
C I Host has received the rare federal HIPAA Certification, which allows the company to provide sensitive information technology services to more than two million health care organizations that must meet strict new patient and confidentiality regulations. C I Host core data center passed the tough ?SAS 70 test.?
   
“Health care services and applications are one of the fastest-growing industries online,” said CEO Christopher Faulkner, C I Host, Bedford, TX. ?U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reveals that during the next 20 years, nearly 20 percent of all new jobs created will happen in the medical field. As companies aim to comply with the new regulations, they?ll be searching for new ways to protect data online. By having this HIPAA Certification, the health care customers will feel more secure knowing that their data is protected with C I Host.?
   
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, known as HIPAA, was enacted in 1996 to provide greater efficiency in the health care system and to give patients tighter control over who has access to their medical records. The privacy restrictions associated with the new law went into effect April 14 of this year.
   
The law includes penalties of $100 to $25,000 for civil violations in which health care workers improperly release information about a patient and up to $250,000 and 10 years in prison for criminal cases. The federal government has received more than 2,700 complaints of HIPAA violations since the law went into effect, according to the Office for Civil Rights in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the agency responsible for enforcing the new law.

   
?We help medical providers keep their patient data secure and running smoothly on our servers so we worry about the information technology while they care for their patients,? said Faulkner. Many health care professionals, fearful that they will be violating the new law, need to know their access to sensitive, personal medical information is protected.?

   
C I Host, the world?s largest privately held hosting company doubled the size of its Los Angeles Data Center to 10,000 square feet, which will be be dedicated on December 2, 2003, with the theme: ?The Tech Boom Is Back In LA.? (www.MayoCommunications.com).

   
C I Host also has offices in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago and London. The all telco-grade, tier-1 data centers are wholly owned and operated by C I Host. The centers consist of redundant diesel generator backups and a temperature-controlled secure environment with fully redundant UPS capability. All server hardware is fully tested and configured for optimal performance. C I Host provides daily Web server backups and full fire protection guard against any data loss.

   
About CI Host: C I Host provides Web page hosting and server colocation for 200,000 individual consumers and companies in 182 countries worldwide. C I Host has won awards for its innovations customers like The Salvation Army, McDonalds, GTE, Del Monte Foods, Lay-Z-Boy, The U.S. Dept. of Commerce and Sierra Software.

   
The Texas global hosting giant creates business-class Web page hosting with the broadest portfolio of managed Web hosting services in the industry. C I Host has been consistently ranked among the top five Web hosting companies out of 16,000 hosts worldwide. CI Host?s 8,000+ resellers bring in more than 300 accounts a day for the company.