Healthcare-Digital May 2024 | Page 145

HEALTH CONNECT AMERICA growing in the future – especially as we ’ re expanding and adding locations at a rapid pace .”
Avertium , meanwhile , is Health Connect America ’ s security partner , providing a virtual CISO , helping with HIPAA risk assessments , pen testing and HITRUST and NIST certifications , as well as offering assistance in ongoing preventative security measures . Shirk also points to Island , which has become Health Connect America ’ s virtual desktop infrastructure ( VDI ) solution .
As a fully-secure enterprise browser , Island allows Shirk and his team to roll out the organisation ’ s entire corporate desktop to any device at a fraction of the cost of a traditional VDI solution .
“ It ’ s a real bleeding edge opportunity in the virtual desktop space ,” Shirk adds .
“ Island is new in the market , but we ’ re really happy with our partnership and their ability to scale .”
The CIO concludes : “ The important thing is to have partners who share your vision and goals , and in Qualifacts , Cox Communications , RapidScale , Logicworks , Avertium and Island , we ’ ve found that .
“ We work on thingstogether and take responsibility together when things go wrong .” healthcare-digital . com 145