U.S. Data Trust's Online Backup Service Assists Healthcare Firms Comply with HIPAA Data Protection Requirements

Geriatrix, Inc. Joins Ranks of Healthcare Companies Using LiveVault Online Backup Service to Safeguard Patient Medical Information

ROSEVILLE, CA (PRWEB) June 22, 2004 -- U.S. Data Trust Corporation (www.usdatatrust.com), a rapidly growing provider of data protection and recovery services for business servers, today announced a contract with Geriatrix, Inc. (www.geriatrix.net) to protect their patient medical information in compliance with U.S. government HIPAA requirements. Geriatrix joins a long list of U.S. Data Trust customers in the healthcare field that seek to improve the protection of sensitive healthcare information.

Geriatrix chose the U.S. Data Trust LiveVault Online Backup Service to protect their critical business information residing on servers in Phoenix and New York City. Tape-based backup just wasnt providing the safeguards we knew we needed, plain and simple," said Kirk Stanley, senior vice president and CFO of Geriatrix. We were spending a lot of money on data protection for a method that fell short of our defined requirements and required a fair amount of maintenance. We knew it was time for a change, especially in light of the new HIPAA requirements."

With LiveVault, Geriatrix is able to automatically and continuously back up all of its server data via an Internet connection to a secure offsite location. The data is then immediately available for recovery in the event of a virus, server crash, fire, flood or other disaster.

LiveVault is the ideal solution for us because it runs automatically, is easy to use and guarantees the recovery of our data," said Stanley. Plus, when HIPAA goes into effect in April 2005, we will be in compliance with the data safeguarding requirements. LiveVault already assures us that all of our patient information is safe and secure."

U.S. Data Trust's LiveVault Online Backup Service is sold as a managed service with plans starting as low as $199 per month. Installation is usually completed in less than 20 minutes using a simply "point and click" web interface. Once configured, the service runs automatically in the background with the U.S. Data Trust Service Operations Center monitoring backup and restore operations 24 hours a day.

About U.S. Data Trust
U.S. Data Trust Corporation provides a completely automated, professionally managed online backup and recovery service for business PC servers. The company's LiveVault Online Backup Service continuously backs up critical server data, archives it in a secure, offsite data center, and makes it immediately available for recovery 24 hours a day.

For more information on U.S. Data Trust's data protection and disaster recovery solutions, please visit www.usdatatrust.com or call (888) DATA-SAFE.