eMazzanti Technologies | Technology Newsletter | Hoboken, NJ – New York, NY | September 2013

Written by Carl Mazzanti
September 4, 2013
8:20 pm

Compliance Requirements You Need to Understand

When you dig deep and try to understand the tasks and procedures you need to protect electronic data you are likely to encounter technical terms—and IT buzzwords— that are confusing. Here are some tips you can use to enSsure that your technology foundation is strong enough to support HIPAA compliance. Remember that HIPAA compliance is a fundamental requirement for you to earn and keep your Meaningful Use incentive money.

Privacy Law: Helpful Guides
used with permission from SBA.gov

For many companies, collecting sensitive consumer and employee information is an essential part of doing business. It is your legal responsibility to take steps to properly secure or dispose of it. Financial data, personal information from children, and material derived from credit reports may raise additional compliance considerations. In addition, you may have legal responsibilities to victims of identity theft.

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC)</span rel=”nofollow”> regulates and oversees business privacy laws and policies that impact consumers. Check out the following guides from more information on how you can ensure you are compliant.

Protecting Employee Privacy: Health Information Rules for Businesses
used with permission from SBA.gov
by Cecelia Taylor

Does your employee health plan allow workers to maintain their medical information online? Do you store information on employee healthcare plans? If so, then you should familiarize yourself with the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), which includes provisions to strengthen privacy and security protections for web-based businesses practices.

As a result of ARRA, the Federal Trade Commission issued a rule requiring companies to contact customers in the event of a security breach. After receiving comments from the public</span rel=”nofollow”>, the FTC issued the Health Breach Notification Rule which requires businesses who have a security breach to:

Office 365: Take Advantage of Office Anywhere
used with permission from Microsoft

Do you spend too much time and money managing and upgrading your servers? Do your employees have the tools they need to easily collaborate with each other? Are you able to keep up with demands from your users for larger mailboxes and more storage? If you find server upgrades too costly, yet spend too much time managing your servers, then we have good news for you!

Microsoft Office 365, a cloud-based productivity service hosted by Microsoft, provides anywhere access to your familiar Office applications, email, calendar, video conferencing, and most up-to-date documents across your devices—all for one predictable monthly fee.

With Office 365, there’s no reason to compromise
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by Michael Atalla

A lot is said these days about the choices people and organizations are faced with when adopting technology. In the end, it’s all about productivity. All of these decisions are made with the aim of optimizing your productivity — whether you’re a stay-at-home mom, accountant, student, or business person.

As people navigate these decisions, their ability to do great work revolves around having the right mix of capabilities delivered by a company they can trust. Why? Because there’s an actual cost to compromising our productivity. There’s a cost to the time and money spent retraining workers to use unfamiliar applications andapplications that don’t do what people need them to do or that require workarounds.There’s a cost to having to purchase add-on technologies to gain the capabilities you need to be successful. And there’s a cost associated with the inability to access the information that’s important to you simply because you don’t have an Internet connection.

Move windows between multiple monitors
used with permission by Microsoft

You can easily extend your Windows desktop across more than one monitor by plugging two or more monitors into a desktop computer or one or more monitors into a laptop. Most laptops allow you to connect one external monitor. A desktop that spans two or more monitors significantly increases your desktop area so that you can drag windows, program icons, and other items to any location on the extended desktop.

Where in the World is eMazzanti?

■	Compliance Requirements You Need to Understand
■	Privacy Law – Helpful Guides
■	Protect Employee Privacy
■	Take Advantage of Office Anywhere
■	Office 365 – No Compromise
■	Move Windows Between Monitors
■	eMazzanti presents…
■	eMazzanti Rocks!
■	Opportunities

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Carl Mazzanti

Carl Mazzanti is Co-Founder and President of eMazzanti Technologies, Microsoft’s four time Partner of the Year and one of the premier IT consulting services for businesses throughout the New York metropolitan area and internationally. Carl and his company manage over 400 active accounts ranging from professional services firms to high-end global retailers.

eMazzanti is all about delivering powerful, efficient outsourced IT services, such as computer network management and troubleshooting, managed print, PCI DSS compliance, green computing, mobile workforce technology, information security, cloud computing, and business continuity and disaster recovery.

Carl Mazzanti is also a frequent business conference speaker and technology talk show guest and contributor at Microsoft-focused events, including frequent prominent roles at the Microsoft Inspire (Worldwide Partner Conference / WPC).

Carl, a serial Entrepreneur, gives back to the community through Entrepreneur teaching engagements at Georgetown University, the company’s ocean wildlife conservation effort, the Blue Project, and Tree Mazzanti.