Recently the team at EHR Doctors embarked on a journey to take VistA Electonic Health Records into the Amazon Ec2 cloud computing platform.  Delivery of an Electronic Medical Record system into the Cloud requires a steadfast focus on security and data privacy.  Our developments started with the Amazon HIPAA whitepaper.  For those who want to see other examples in action, a number of HealthIT companies have already made Amazon eC2 HIPAA compliant applications including DiskAgent.  Amazon has a good data security whitepaper on securing a server by closing ports and using ssh keys to connect.  We started off using a customized and standardized version of VistA EHR as the base for our Ec2 setup.  We ensured data security by installing OpenVPN to make sure all data is encryped with SSL from client to server.  We can now provide secure VistA on the Amazon Ec2.  Contact us for more details.

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