Securicy Co-Founders – CEO Darren Gallop and COO Laird Wilton

If more businesses can achieve HIPAA compliance, the healthcare industry would benefit by gaining access to innovative solutions. Especially as the COVID-19 pandemic continues, it is critical that American hospitals and healthcare providers can securely use the best technology available.

SYDNEY, Nova Scotia (PRWEB)
May 26, 2020

Today Securicy is announcing the HIPAA Compliance Fast Track, a solution to speed up the process for businesses to meet security and privacy requirements for selling to the healthcare industry. For vendors and service providers, known as business associates, proving this standard of compliance can be a barrier to serving the United States healthcare industry.

“HIPAA Compliance Fast Track provides an efficient path to become a vendor for the healthcare industry, which would otherwise be a time and resource-intensive undertaking for many businesses. This is a great value to businesses that see the HIPAA Compliance Fast Track as a way to reduce their own risk, while opening up opportunities to reach a new market segment,” says Securicy CEO Darren Gallop.

“If more businesses can achieve HIPAA compliance, the healthcare industry would benefit by gaining access to innovative solutions. Especially as the COVID-19 pandemic continues, it is critical that American hospitals and healthcare providers can securely use the best technology available.”

While the requirements for HIPAA compliance can prove difficult to implement for many businesses, the HIPAA Compliance Fast Track is designed to give business leaders clear steps, compliance reporting, and a central hub for managing everything. Businesses can use this to efficiently achieve and maintain HIPAA compliance, ensuring their data, technology, and software meets security and privacy standards for serving facilities that hold patient contact information and medical records.

Securicy’s HIPAA Compliance Fast Track includes the following tools and resources for businesses:

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  Security Gap Analysis and Planning for HIPAA Compliance: This technical assessment of the current security measures and infrastructure at a business identifies gaps in compliance with HIPAA. With an Information Security Gap Analysis report from Securicy, business leaders can understand the timeline and resources required for their business to become fully HIPAA compliant.
• HIPAA-Compliant Security and Privacy Program Designer: The foundation of HIPAA Compliance Fast Track is a custom-generated information security and privacy program, with comprehensive internal policies, procedures, and controls. The Securicy platform develops a tailored set of critical components based on privacy regulations (HIPAA, PIPEDA, GDPR, CCPA) and information security best practices (SOC 2, CIS).
• Business Continuity Plan Builder: This tool quickly guides companies through creating and activating a strong business continuity and disaster recovery plan. A required element for HIPAA compliance, this plan keeps business operations protected, secure, and thriving even in the event of a crisis.

To further support businesses, Securicy is also offering relevant content in a webinar series and recorded content focused on HIPAA compliance, securely working from home, and business continuity. Businesses can sign up for these free tools at https://www.securicy.com/hipaa-compliance-solution/

ABOUT SECURICY

Securicy is a SaaS company that specializes in simplifying information security and privacy compliance for businesses. Securicy builds trust between businesses and their customers in a world where people want to know their confidential information is protected. The company has raised $2.8M dollars since its incorporation in late 2016 and currently employs 17 full-time employees and several contractors.

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LOS ANGELES (PRWEB)
May 26, 2020

Discount Two-Way Radio today introduced a new professional two-way radio cleaning kit called 2-Way Radio Kleen ™ to help shield professional two-way radio users from inadvertently being exposed to potentially harmful pathogens. 2-Way Radio Kleen will protect workers from 99.9 percent of all bacteria, germs, and viruses that can collect on radio equipment before being passed along to the radio user or other crew members.

According to Ben Burns, Founder and CEO of Discount Two-Way Radio, 2-Way Radio Kleen was designed to not only help protect American workers from germs, but also help reinforce proper radio cleaning techniques and sanitation principles often neglected in industries that use two-way radios.

“It is becoming clear that practicing social distancing, constant hand washing, and liberal use disinfecting wipes are here to stay. So, we started thinking about how we can help reinforce this same message for our customers who use two-way radios on a daily basis. After talking with our customers and conducting product research, a self-contained two-way radio cleaning kit was the perfect solution,” said Burns.

According to Burns, 2-Way Radio Kleen includes the following 37 items that were specifically designed to sanitize, disinfect, and protect the radio user and every external component of the radio itself, including the metal housing, plastic programming knobs, and rubber antenna:

• 4 oz. bottle of specially formulated cleaning solution that cleans, deodorizes, and disinfects two-way radio equipment from all viruses including influenza A (swine flu), H1N1 (bird flu), and COVID-19.
• 4 radio cleaning wipes
• 4 Moist Wet Cleaning Wipes
• 8 Precision Wipe Tissues
• 8 Non-Sterile Cotton swabs with wooden handles
• 1 antiseptic brush
• 8 Large Nitrile Protective Gloves

2-Way Radio Kleen will retail for $29.95, while individual bottles of the cleaning solution can be purchased for $9.95.

Burns explained that the cleaning kit was especially designed to clean both soft surfaces (like rubber antennas) as well as hard surfaces (like two-way radio chassis). In addition, the disinfecting solution has a neutral PH formula which will not dull or scratch high-gloss surfaces as display screens.

“At a time when reducing disease, bacteria and viruses is more important than ever, Discount Two-Way Radio’s 2-Way Radio Kleen Two-Way Radio cleaning Kit is playing an important role in helping protect some of our country’s hardest working people through easy to apply cleaning tools. It’s everything you need for cleaning one radio or an entire fleet. not just clean, but sanitized.

About Discount Two-Way Radio:

Discount Two-Way Radio is North America’s exclusive distributor of RCA professional grade two-way radios. Founded in 1987, Discount Two-Way Radio services more than 100,000 customers in the education, construction, manufacturing, medical, firs and police, and oil and gas production industries.

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NEW YORK (PRWEB)
May 26, 2020

One of the country’s largest free tech training programs, ​NPower, has released a survey of CIOs and executives from a wide swath of sectors, detailing their views on the tech labor market, hiring, corporate investments and work-from-home practices over the next 6-18 months.

The survey involved 75 CIOs and tech executives from the financial services, consultancy and technology industry. Survey participants sit on the national board or regional board of NPower.

The CEO of NPower, Bertina Ceccarelli, said the purpose of the survey was to anticipate future hiring needs of entry-level tech talent across industries as the economy enters the next phase of COVID-19 and recovery.

The survey revealed that cloud support and cybersecurity will be the tech jobs most in demand over the next 6-18 months, followed by remote trouble-shooting IT and IT generalist positions.

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  100 percent of participants need for cloud support skills will be very important.
• 98 percent said need for cybersecurity talent will be important or extremely important.
• 95 percent of participants said remote troubleshooting IT will be important.
• 91 percent believe IT generalist positions will be important or somewhat important.

Other findings in the survey include:

• 96 percent expect more Americans to work from home post pandemic.
• 64% agree or strongly agree that they will look to improve business continuity by diversifying their outsourced IT services to include both domestic and overseas providers.

“We are already seeing major tech companies like Google and Amazon offer their employees the option to remain remote for the rest of 2020, our advisors believe this trend will become more commonplace across industries” says Bertina Ceccarelli. “We are fortunate to have engagement from companies as diverse and Dell, World Wide Technology, Citi, Accenture, Bank of America, Deloitte and Broadridge. This engagement is critical for our training and job placement model.”

Nearly 70% of survey respondents report there will be continued or increased corporate investment in upskilling and training for new IT skills post-COVID. Most executives acknowledge that hiring for entry-level IT positions will be slow for the remainder of 2020.

“The health crisis has significantly impacted companies around the world,” says Matt Horner, Senior Vice President, Global Enterprise Sales at World Wide Technology and NPower Board Vice Chair, “but all signs point to a pick-up in hiring for technology positions in first half of 2021.”

“All of our NPower board members and advisors have their pulse on the economy, labor market and the future hiring practices,” said Ceccarelli. “We wanted to hear directly from them on what their tech-related hiring needs will be over the next 6-18 months. NPower also wanted to learn which IT jobs will be most in demand post COVID-19. The results give us a deep perspective on where the tech jobs are headed for different industries.”

The survey also looked at future hiring trends from both domestic and overseas vendors. Roughly 64 percent of US-based companies said they strongly agree or agree that their company will increasingly look to mitigate risk and protect business continuity by diversifying IT services firms to include both domestic and overseas vendors.

Ceccarelli said the survey results will help NPower adapt their approach to tech talent placement from their current class of young adults and veterans across the country.

“NPower listens intently to the business community in order to train for the most relevant, in-demand skills,” said Ceccarelli. “This feedback from our board members and advisors is encouraging. Technology will lead the economic rebound, providing much-needed job opportunities for the communities we serve.”

About NPower

NPower is a national nonprofit on a mission to move people from poverty to the middle class by training youth from underserved communities and veterans in a range of tech skills and placing them in quality jobs. Students who enter their free, six-month program, earn industry-recognized certifications and graduate with the competencies of an IT professional with one to two years of experience. NPower also places students in paid internships with corporate and nonprofit organizations. Eighty percent of NPower graduates get a full-time job or continue their education. Not only is NPower changing life trajectories for individuals from vulnerable communities but they are also strengthening the overall competitiveness of U.S. businesses hamstrung by today’s limited pool of IT talent. NPower’s free tech training programs for under-served communities are located in Brooklyn, Harlem, Baltimore, Jersey City, Newark, Detroit, Dallas, St. Louis and San Francisco. To learn more about NPower, visit http://www.npower.org.

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BROWNS MILLS, N.J. (PRWEB)
May 26, 2020

Deborah Heart and Lung Center, New Jersey’s only specialty heart, lung, and vascular hospital, and an Alliance member of the Cleveland Clinic Heart, Vascular & Thoracic Institute, has announced the introduction of remote patient monitoring for patients diagnosed with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).

COPD is a growing and devastating disease and is the third leading cause of death in the United States. An estimated 16 million American adults are diagnosed with the condition every year, and another 12 million people are believed to be undiagnosed. COPD is a progressive disease with restricted airflow causing difficulty breathing, coughing, and wheezing. Patients diagnosed with COPD require physician monitoring to prevent the disease from progressing.

With the expansion of telemedicine and remote monitoring services prompted by the Coronavirus epidemic, Deborah has instituted a new remote patient monitoring services platform. Called HGE Care™ the remote monitoring platform is designed for COPD patients who have been discharged from the hospital and are recuperating at home.

“This is a great step forward for our COPD patients who are particularly vulnerable after a hospital stay,” said Andrew Martin, MD, Chair, Pulmonary Medicine at Deborah. “In order to provide the absolute best health outcomes for our patients, when they are discharged they will be set-up on their smartphones with a secure, private communication with our contact center, so they can report on their symptoms daily. If there is a change in a patient’s status, the contact center will immediately alert us, and the patient will receive a call from their physician for further follow-up.”

Dr. Martin added: “We expect that this same-day symptom feedback loop will help prevent a worsening of symptoms, and will provide us the ability to head off any problems before they escalate.”

HGE Health, the platform’s developer, points to HGE Care as a critical bridge between patients and physicians.

“We know that patients discharged from the hospital are highly vulnerable and clinically fragile,” said Michael J. Markus, Ph.D., CEO, HGE Health. “Partnering with a hospital like Deborah allows us to support these patients on their journey to health.”

The HGE Care Contact Center is staffed by pulmonary nurses and healthcare coordinators and operates from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. EST, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. Built on clinical protocols developed and supported by 17 years of research, the Company’s technology has compiled the longest-running and world’s largest longitudinal data set of COPD symptoms, interventions, and clinical management to help physicians provide care for a diverse COPD and pulmonary patient population.

About Deborah Heart and Lung Center

Deborah Heart and Lung Center in Browns Mills, NJ is a teaching hospital that specializes in the diagnosis, research, and treatment of heart, lung, and vascular diseases, as well as providing outpatient cardiology services for children. Deborah is consistently recognized as a leader in patient care and innovative healing and is an affiliate of the Cleveland Clinic Heart & Vascular Institute. For more information visit http://www.DemandDeborah.org

About HGE Health

Headquartered in Fort Washington, PA, HGE Health harnesses its deep experience in chronic disease management and digital health in pulmonary disease, telemedicine, and mobile health to develop a clinical services platform that delivers better care faster at a much lower cost for patients, physicians and payors. Built on clinical protocols developed and supported by 16 years of research, the company’s technology has compiled the longest-running and world’s largest longitudinal data set of COPD symptoms, interventions, and clinical management to help physicians provide care for a geographically and socio-economically diverse COPD and pulmonary patient population.

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LOS ANGELES (PRWEB)
May 26, 2020

The nutrition app Lifesum has announced a new growth milestone, exceeding more than 45 million global users in May 2020. Making this rapid growth even more impressive, Lifesum grew its user base at a time when consumers across the globe are forced to Shelter-at-Home due to the Coronavirus pandemic.

Lifesum also continued to acquire more users at a faster pace than other weight loss programs advertising heavily on TV, including Noom and WW (Weight Watchers), according to public analytics published with the market intelligence platform, Sensor Tower.

The CEO of Lifesum, Henrik Torstensson, said consumers are gravitating towards healthier food options – as opposed to weight loss diets – and Lifesum’s nutrition health program is benefiting from the shift.

“The concept of a traditional one-size-fits all diet doesn’t make sense any more,” said Torstensson. “Technology has played a massive role in the health and wellness industry, and we’re seeing a large shift in the way that people think about eating and eating healthy. Younger generations, like Millennials and Gen Z, are taking their health into their own hands and want to cultivate sustainable, healthy eating habits that fit their needs and lifestyle. Lifesum is filling this gap.”

US Market Leading Rapid Growth for Lifesum

Lifesum is already one of the most popular digital health apps in the UK, Germany, France,Italy, Russia, Sweden, Denmark and Norway. And it consistently ranks in the Top 10 in the Health & Fitness section in the App Store and is the Editors’ Choice on Google Play.

In January 2020, the editor of Parade Magazine called Lifesum her “personal favorite” for healthy eating, while PCMag wrote, “Lifesum is one of the best weight management apps I’ve seen,” in their review of digital health apps.

Torstensson said many Americans first learned of Lifesum after Apple showcased it during the unveiling of Apple Watch Series 4 in 2018. Since then, Lifesum has been on a steady upwards trajectory.

“People around the world are looking for practical and sustainable ways to eat healthier. As a mobile app, we’re able to educate and give immediate feedback to people across the globe on how they can implement a balanced, nutrient-rich diet that fits their personal health goals,” said Torstensson. “Lifesum has received hundreds of thousands of positive reviews both from consumers and reporters. It’s one of the many reasons we hit this record milestone so quickly.”

Earlier this year, Lifesum announced a new content and software update that helps consumers eat healthier and with more variety to their diet to help users who are forced to stay at home during this global pandemic.

Consumer Engagement Continues to Grow in 2020

Internal data has shown user engagement with Lifesum is increasing across the globe as more consumers cook at home and look for more ways to eat healthy.

Lifesum also discovered as the Coronavirus quarantine expanded across the globe, consumers became more mindful of what they ate. Lifesum user data shows people ate more fruits, vegetables and healthy nuts, and fewer ready-made meals during the shelter-at-home. It’s a trend that continues today.

More About Lifesum

Lifesum uses technology and psychology to create a tailored plan for users, improving the way they eat, drink and exercise. Whether the user’s goal is to get fitter, lose weight or just lead a healthier lifestyle, Lifesum shows consumers how changing small habits and implementing them in everyday life can improve their overall health.

Consumers who want to download Lifesum and try out the new recipes can download the digital app on iOS or Android.

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