Lindy Benton

Lindy Benton is CEO of Vyne, a provider of electronic attachment, health information exchange and healthcare cloud storage solutions for hospitals, health systems and medical practices.

Articles by Lindy Benton

• Don’t let data loss or hardware failure derail your dental practice

  Tuesday, August 15, 2017

  Technology, IT and computer systems are now mission-critical assets for dental practices and perform highly-critical and sensitive functions. Any loss of data can result in substantial impact to the practice in terms of lost time, money and fines — not to mention that the loss of personal information to the outside world can be catastrophic.

• Progress toward simplification between hospitals, health plans

  Tuesday, March 15, 2016

  ​​HIPAA introduced administrative simplification to move the healthcare industry from paper-based administrative processes to streamlined electronic communication between providers and health plans. Ultimately, the effort seeks to support collaboration and information sharing for improved efficiency, reduced cost and increased price transparency for patients.

• Data is no less secure even as HIPAA enforcement is here

  Thursday, April 02, 2015

  The headlines are endless and ever-growing: Healthcare data is at risk. Exposure is happening because a scourge of people worldwide is illegally trying to benefit from the information; because of improper protection of sensitive information; or because of some other sort of breach. However, despite continued efforts to address security loopholes across the sector, simply "taking action" to mitigate damage is not an effective strategy, and it won't work long term.