American Hospice, a leader in the delivery of hospice services, urgently needed a way to secure its new mobile health initiative, allowing for the transi- tion of its antiquated, paper-based records system online. The organiza- tion’s new, cutting-edge mobile system that would eliminate its complicated paper-based reporting for traveling staff, improve patient care and meet new Medicare record filing require- ments was at a standstill. In order to meet the data-in-motion security man- date from HIPAA, American Hospice needed virtual private network (VPN) to rollout the mobile health initiative — or otherwise risk having to redesign the entire system. PUSHING FOR A MOBILE SOLUTION American Hospice had a growing paper problem. The organization’s 180 home healthcare workforce

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