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	March 2013: BYOD: What’s Your Policy? By now most everyone is familiar with the “Bring Your Own Device,” or BYOD, trend—meaning the proliferation of lawyer- and staff-owned personal mobile devices used for firm business. But apart from being the latest buzzword, BYOD has distinct security implications for law firms. Let’s look at the way the profession’s use of technology has evolved over the past couple of decades to pinpoint security gaps and best practices.
	February 2013: Biscom has receives FIPS 140-2 Certification FIPS 140-2 is a National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) certification for the encryption technologies employed in applications that are used in the federal government. FIPS 140-2 certification verifies that the application passes a battery of tests verifying that encryption routines meet the stringent requirements when working with highly sensitive or confidential documents and files.
	January 2013: Biscom Helps Organizations Find the Right Secure File Transfer Solution Corporations and organizations of every size and kind spend millions of dollars each year making sure their private information stays that way. With digital information, of course, comes even greater need for data security, especially considering how commonplace cyber attacks have become. However, confidential information can't always be kept within the organization and so further attempts must be made to ensure data security even beyond an organization's borders.
	January 2013: A Smart File Transfer System Means Big Benefits for Users When it comes to file transfer systems, most people figure that e-mail is good enough. And why not? E-mail is quick, everybody already has it, and in many cases, attaching a file is a simple process with few steps that sends a file at incredible speeds until it reaches its target. Just send it and forget it, as the infomercials like to say. But for larger files, and for larger groups of files, having a file transfer system in place can be a much better alternative, and the kind of thing that can prove very valuable.
	January 2013: Mobile's Impact on Hospital IT Security in 2013: How Your Institution Can Adapt to BYOD The healthcare industry continues to experience a barrage of new regulatory requirements, and the widespread adoption of mobile technology is adding fuel to the fire. As hospitals and other healthcare enterprises adopt mobile solutions, the Bring Your Own Device trend is resulting in IT departments taking action to maintain stringent security measures and maintain compliance.
	January 2013: Ten Tech Predictions for Medical Practives in 2013 Yes, portals and mobile EHRs were big in 2012 - but will the continue to make headlines in 2013?
	January 2013: Ransom, implant attack highlight need for healthcare security All healthcare data breaches are not equal. They're all bad, and reaching epidemic levels. The security testing company Redspin, for one, found that Protected Health Information (PHI) breaches nearly doubled from 2010 to 2011. The Department of Health and Human Services has reported 525 breaches of 500 or more records, involving 21.4 million individuals over the past three years, said Redspin president and CEO Daniel Berger.
	December 2012: A Successful BYOD Policy Balances Usability and Control The idea of sensitive company data flying through the airwaves to computing devices the company doesn't own is enough to make most compliance officers' blood pressure rise.
	November 2012: MHT and BBJ award leading area innovators A Nobel Peace Prize winner, an entrepreneur who joins the likes of Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg and achieved a perfect math SAT score of 800, and an 82-year-old executive who makes his way to the office each day ensuring the company never rests on its laurels. Who are they?
	October 2012: 10 steps for writing a secure BYOD policy The 'Bring Your Own Device' trend is simply the latest vector to threaten corporate security, but there are remedies to these threats that will satisfy both IT and end users.
	October 2012: Fax Technology Making Its Mark on Healthcare When you think of fax, you probably don’t think of up-to-date high-tech or innovative advancements, but fax technology is being used in fresh ways, particularly in healthcare.
	September 2012: Sharing Documents Securely via E-Mail For healthcare institutions involved with medical research, sharing data can be tricky. Not only does patient information need to be protected, but large files can quickly clog up users' e-mail accounts. Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, a Harvard Medical School-affiliated hospital in Boston, has found a way to tackle both challenges at the same time.
	September 2012: SK HO, Tech Luminary Mass High Tech together with the Boston Business Journal today introduced the 30 recipients of its 2012 Innovation All-Stars. Mass High Tech recognized 15 Tech Luminaries who are driven and influential leaders of New England’s innovation economy. The Boston Business Journal recognized 15 innovative leaders under age 30 in Massachusetts businesses.
	Setember 2012: On Path to Electronic Health Information Exchange — Through an Unexpected Method Despite efforts toward electronic health information exchange, faxing remains ubiquitous in today's healthcare settings and has long been essential to the daily sharing of secure information between hospitals, medical practices, pharmacies, payors, labs, government entities and other key stakeholders.
	Setember 2012: Biscom FoIP Biscom, founded in 1986 and headquartered in Chelmsford, MA, is a supplier of FoIP/Fax products and services supporting over 5,000 clients. According to a Davidson Consulting report released earlier this year, “Biscom is the third-leading FoIP vendor with $15.1 million in 2011 revenues which raised its share of the market from 6.2% in 2010 to 7.0% in 2011.”
	August 2012: Tech CEOs' first jobs: Licorice maker, housekeeper, scuba diver and more S.K. Ho’s first job was working at an aerospace consulting firm during graduate school in the early 1960s. After graduation, he was hired as a research scientist. He stayed a couple of years in the mathematics-heavy environment, but found he was drawn to the world of digital technology.
	August 2012: Enterprise Fax is the Interoperability Standard in Healthcare Targeting very large enterprises with its key segments being healthcare, accounting for over a third of its business in addition to financial services, government and manufacturing and transportation industries, the enterprise fax provider caters to some of the largest companies in the U.S. and Canada measuring up to faxing demands from the IRS, US Senate and FBI.
	August 2012: Getting the Fax Straight In the healthcare realm, fax has flaunted its feisty figure amidst a burgeoning epoch of innovative health information technology. According to the annual National Physicians Survey released in June this year, fax still remains the predominant form of communication for 63 percent of healthcare providers, and some experts say it will continue to feed into the future.
	July 2012: Biscom Inc. Halts Business Interruptions with Hybrid Platform Biscom's hybrid fax platform, a combination of Biscom's FAXCOM server and FAXCOM Anywhere hosted cloud-based systems, offers a business continuity solution that gives users the dual benefit of cloud technology with the performance of a dedicated on-site server, overcoming the limitations of traditional methods, said officials. Read more:
	July 2012: Organizations Continue to Implement the Biscom Enterprise Fax Platform at a Rapid Pace Biscom, Inc., a provider of enterprise fax servers, hosted cloud fax services, and secure file transfer solutions, has recently revealed that its hybrid fax platform is helping multiple companies overcome issues such as interruptions to Web traffic and hardware/software failures that negatively impact the way they completed business transactions with customers, suppliers, or patients.
	July 2012: Get the Most Out of Your Secure File Transfer System Collaboration among hospitals and health networks is a mission-critical necessity. But the high-tech environment that’s been created to facilitate this collaboration and data exchange is often filled with security challenges. How can healthcare institutions ensure physician and patient data are kept secure?
	May 2012: Biscom awarded patent for file size reduction tech Biscom, Inc. of Chelmsford, a provider of enterprise fax servers, hosted cloud fax services, and secure file transfer services, was awarded a patent for its invention of a scanning system for both color and black-and-white information on documents and pages scanned in full color.
	May 2012: PHI data sharing and secure collaboration made easy It’s no secret that collaboration and sharing of protected health information (PHI) is a daily, mission-critical activity. Today’s healthcare landscape depends on sharing PHI to drive clinical efficiency and provide better patient care. Secure collaboration and intra-departmental PHI sharing extends from hospitals to practices, specialists, payers, pharmacies, labs, research institutions and government.
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	April 2012: Healthcare Organizations Take Fax Technology to the Cloud The activities that take place in the standard medical environment more than fill the day. Medical equipment orders, prescriptions, tests, communications and more flow in and out of the standard office at a constant pace. Without the right communication channels in place, orders can get lost and patients can ultimately suffer.
	April 2012: Cloud VOIP Faxing Lives On in Health Care With Faxcom Anywhere In the age of electronic health records and remote-monitoring apps, faxing is still alive, especially in health care. But you'll find the old-school technology being used in the cloud by companies such as Barnes Healthcare Services, a medical equipment company based in Valdosta, Ga.
	March 2012: Amid doubts about cloud file-sharing services, enterprises operate their own Cloud-based file-sharing services like Dropbox have become popular, but organizations with sensitive data say they're reluctant to turn it over to cloud services. Instead, they're buying file-sharing products they manage on their own for bulk file transfers among business partners.