A cyberattack forced a West Virginia hospital to scrap its entire computer network and replace it after losing access to patient medical records and being unable to review patient histories. The attack highlights the importance of protecting patient data in cloud-based systems. A medical device company announces new products that use web-based architectures to protect practices from similar attacks by eliminating locally-stored protected health information. The company also offers a report on patients who have undergone certain medical tests in the last year to help practices optimize patient outcomes.

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See below for updates to the PADnet® program and informa on about peripheral vascular disease
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Recent Cybera ack Forces
Hospital to Scrap Computers
The recent Petya outbreak has forced a
hospital in West Virginia to scrap and replace
their en re computer network. Their EMR
has been completely frozen, leaving doctors
unable to review medical histories.
Worried this could happen to you? The good
news is that your PADnet data can be protected against this type of data loss. By leveraging our cloud-
based pla orm, even if your EMR is taken offline due to a cybera ack or other event, you s ll have
access to your PADnet studies.
In addi on, we are proud to announce that we have two solu ons that can protect your prac ce by
leveraging a web-based architecture to eliminate the need to store PHI locally:
PADnet 4.0, our newest product, which can also perform a full arterial study in 11 minutes
Security Vault, a product that enables you to keep using your legacy PADnet, while taking
advantage of our newest so ware
To find out more about these products, please contact our Customer Service team at 888-889-8997, or
email support@biomedix.com.

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New Service Available to PADnet Customers
We are excited to announce a new service we are
making available to our customers.
We've found that many of our customers perform
PADnet examina ons annually on pa ents who have
been found to have mild PAD (Peripheral Artery
Disease).
In an a empt to help our customers op mize pa ent
outcomes, we are now offering a report to customers,
which will include the pa ents who have had a PADnet test in the past 12-24 months. Please note that
this report will be transmi ed to a computer in your prac ce in a HIPAA-compliant manner.
If you are interested in receiving this report, please contact our Customer Service team at 888-889-
8997, or email support@biomedix.com.
APMA Launches New
Campaign
The American Podiatric Medical Associa on
announced a new campaign, Podiatrists: First
Responders for Vascular Disease, designed to
educate the public about the risk factors of

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vascular disease, and a podiatrist's role in
iden fying serious health concerns.
Find out more about this campaign
at: h p://www.apma.org/vascular
Contact Biomedix sales at 877-854-0014 to
discuss how PADnet can help you become a
first responder to iden fy vascular disease,
and improve pa ent outcomes.
Contact Biomedix Sales at sales@biomedix.com to schedule
a full demo of PADnet 4.0
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