As many as 100,000 patients of Peninsula Orthopaedic Associates were warned tapes containing their personal information were stolen on March 25, 2009. The tapes were stolen en-route to an offsite storage facility.
The good news is that Peninsula Orthopaedic was backing up its data. The bad news is the backup tapes were stolen while being transported to an offsite facility. If Peninsula Orthopaedic had used an online database like TrackVia, patient data would not have needed to be physically transported to an offsite storage facility.
With TrackVia, no data is stored on your computer. TrackVia uses RAID mirroring to store data on physically distinct and redundant storage devices. In addition, all data is stored in duplicate on physically separate servers in real time. This continuously running backup process eliminates the need for customers to back their data up on tapes and transport them to an offsite facility.
Peninsula Orthopedic and its patients alike could have rested easier knowing their data was continually backed up at TrackVia’s infrastructure partner, ViaWest, which provides a solid hosting infrastructure built with redundancy, security and performance in mind.
