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Citus Data Announces HIPAA-Compliant Healthcare Cloud

November 13, 2018 - Citus Data announced that Citus Cloud can now be used to manage PHI and build HIPAA-compliant applications for the healthcare cloud. The scale-out Postgres database company now allows software-as-a-service (SaaS)-based healthcare companies to build HIPAA-compliant applications on top of the Citrus Cloud database. The company announced that it has...


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