Reducing Risks Maximizing Returns From HIPAA 5010 Transition
Healthcare is a complex ecosystem with "many-to-many" interactions among payers, providers, clearinghouses, and employers. An enormous amount of data is exchanged between...
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Solutions for 21st Century Healthcare
[ Source: 3Com ]
September 2009-To significantly improve the delivery of healthcare, an impressive arrange of new technology solutions are being introduced daily. 3Com designs solutions that deliver unique price/performance value, reduce complexity to facilitate healthcare delivery and ensure security to protect investments, resources and information.
In this case study, learn how 3Com can help you enhance patient care by maximizing business continuity, security, and productivity.
Preventing Data Breaches in Privileged Accounts Using Access Control
[ Source: BeyondTrust ]
November 2009-It is critical that organizations are proactive in their approach to mitigating insider threats. Week-after week there are disturbing, déjà vu-like stories of significant data breaches, arrests connected to insider attacks, or investigation reports emphasizing the necessity to control privileged accounts that hold highly sensitive data. This white paper explores insider attacks, threats and risks involved across every enterprise. Lastly, we will recommend a sound, cost-saving solution to prevent a disaster from happening to a ....
Cloud Computing Implementation Frameworks and SOA
[ Source: Fiorano Software ]
November 2009-Today's enterprise environment is rapidly changing. The disparate mix of operating systems, applications and databases for businesses and organizations increasingly characterizes the IT system landscape, exacerbated by consolidation across nearly all industry sectors. Service-agnostic cloud computing and frameworks to efficiently harness, provision, launch, debug, and manage distributed services virtualized across the enterprise poses both, a great challenge and an opportunity to streamline business operations.
As enterprise applications and technologies grow in complexity and ....
Employee Web Use and Misuse: Companies, Their Employees and the Internet
[ Source: MessageLabs, Symantec Hosted Services ]
November 2009-The Internet has created new opportunities for mischief and new challenges for managers. In the end, it comes down to choice. Where do you draw the line? How do you balance individual access with the overall protection and good of the business? What is the correct balance between monitoring and blocking? This white paper examines a Web security solution that gives companies the ability to monitor and enforce their Internet usage policies, bringing site monitoring ....
Harnessing Your Tribal Knowledge
[ Source: Altus ]
November 2009-Corporations are modern tribes, with their own members, culture, and knowledge. Capturing, saving, and sharing the collective knowledge of the tribe can lead to a more informed and productive organization over the long haul. Most senior corporate leaders would readily agree that the wealth of their organization lies with the knowledge that is locked in the minds and desktops of their employees. The ability to capture and share that knowledge to maintain success and ....
Lower your IT costs and risks: Get a server makeover.
[ Source: IBM ]
October 2009-According to IDC, the costs of server management, including power and cooling costs, will outpace the costs of buying these servers by a factor of four times and eight times respectively. Find out how a server makeover analysis can help you develop a high-level roadmap for your infrastructure. View the brochure.
Safe Email - Seven Important Tips for Better Email Security in 2009
[ Source: Webroot ]
October 2009-Unwanted email puts every organization at risk. Sixty-two trillion spam messages went out last year alone. The well-financed perpetrators of these attacks employ ever more sophisticated techniques, straining staffs and budgets, and driving companies to find ways to protect themselves from the damage these emails cause.
In this paper, you will learn how Best-in-Class companies protect themselves from email vulnerabilities, successfully reducing the number of email attacks, the lost business due to false positives, ....
A CISO's Guide to Application Security
[ Source: Fortify ]
November 2009-Security breaches are expensive. They cost time, effort, remediation, and reputation restoration. Many IT decision-makers tend to focus their security efforts almost exclusively at the network perimeter. They overlook the software applications that run their day-to-day agencies. These applications are often packed with Social Security numbers, addresses, personal health information, or other sensitive data.
Focusing on security features at both the infrastructure and application level isn’t enough. Organizations must also consider flaws in their ....
Driving IT Help Desk Efficiency with Customer-Centric Remote Support
[ Source: Citrix Online ]
October 2009-The IT help desk is a high-stress environment – and sometimes it can feel downright chaotic. While the obvious objective is to resolve technical issues, IT help desks also battle call length, employee dissatisfaction and low morale. IDC predicts that by 2011, 73 percent of the U.S. workforce will be mobile, inevitably increasing the pressure on the IT help desk. That’s why more companies are turning to Web-based, customer-centric remote support to support a burgeoning ....
Data Protection Strategies Using Replication
[ Source: Sunbelt Software ]
September 2009-Businesses are becoming increasingly dependent on continuous access to stored data and as a result, storage usage is growing at an unprecedented rate. As the number of mission-critical servers and storage resources grow, so does the importance of protecting against service interruptions that can threaten an organization's ability to provide access to key data.
There are a number of strategies that can be employed to protect important data, and each has strengths and weaknesses. ....
GridBank: Changing the Rules of Archiving
[ Source: Tarmin Technologies ]
July 2009-
GridBank delivers enterprise class secondary storage solutions optimized for unstructured content. Dramatic storage CAPEX and OPEX savings, full information lifecycle management, multi petabyte scalability, leading security, ease of integration/use are hallmarks of the GridBank solution. In this presentation, you will learn how GridBank efficiently addresses key concerns and enables storage managers to effectively manage rapidly growing volumes of file based fixed content.
Comparing Wi-Fi RFID And IR-RFID Real-Time Locating Systems For Use In Healthcare
[ Source: Versus Technology ]
August 2009-
Real-time locating systems (RTLS) are becoming mainstream in healthcare environments. Although currently there is only a 29% adoption rate, this number is expected to grow to nearly 70% by 2011. However, there are many different RTLS offerings as well as remarkable variation in the implementation processes, functionality, and long-term success with each system. This white paper explores the implementation costs between two popular RTLS solutions: Wi-Fi RFID (radio frequency identification) from Cisco and hardwired Infrared-RFID ....
GridBank: Changing the Rules of Archiving
[ Source: Tarmin Technologies ]
July 2009-
GridBank delivers enterprise class secondary storage solutions optimized for unstructured content. Dramatic storage CAPEX and OPEX savings, full information lifecycle management, multi petabyte scalability, leading security, ease of integration/use are hallmarks of the GridBank solution. In this presentation, you will learn how GridBank efficiently addresses key concerns and enables storage managers to effectively manage rapidly growing volumes of file based fixed content.
Improving Healthcare Delivery with Role-Enabled Communications
[ Source: NEC ]
September 2009-
Today, more healthcare IT organizations than ever are interested in implementing UC applications in a planned, cost effective manner. In order to meet their tremendous potential for improved healthcare delivery requires more than UC - it requires role-enabled communications. Download NEC's whitepaper to see how to deal with healthcare challenges.
Comparing Wi-Fi RFID And IR-RFID Real-Time Locating Systems For Use In Healthcare
[ Source: Versus Technology ]
August 2009-
Real-time locating systems (RTLS) are becoming mainstream in healthcare environments. Although currently there is only a 29% adoption rate, this number is expected to grow to nearly 70% by 2011. However, there are many different RTLS offerings as well as remarkable variation in the implementation processes, functionality, and long-term success with each system. This white paper explores the implementation costs between two popular RTLS solutions: Wi-Fi RFID (radio frequency identification) from Cisco and hardwired Infrared-RFID ....
Re-engineering The Wireless Network In Healthcare
[ Source: Radiant Networks ]
July 2008-
The Radiant Networks StatAware Healthcare solution tracks equipment, medical staff, and patients to improve workflow, reduce costs, and increase satisfaction. The StatAware solution has combined the Cisco Unified Wireless Network and Mobility Services Engine with AeroScout’s WiFi-based RFID tags and MobileView application to cost effectively automate asset management.
How to Hire an IT Services Business for Your Specialty Medical Practice
[ Source: Exigent Technologies ]
January 2007-
This whitepaper serves as a guide for physicians, medical administrators and their staff members who are charged with hiring an IT services company in the large specialty-practice setting. The guide aims to arm the consumer with relevant questions and information to make the selection process as efficient as possible.
Why Outsource Health Care IT Staffing?
[ Source: Team International ]
April 2009-
The health care industry is ultimately the most complex in needs, data demands, regulations, market size and revenue models, core functions, and outsourcing niche vendors. Regardless of the fact that in recent years the complexity of health care IT solutions has significantly increased, this industry is still projected to be one of the most dynamically developing and fastest-growing segments of IT technologies’ implementation and development in 2009.
Marginal Interpretation of Subject-Specific Curves: Logistic-Normal Regression
[ Source: SAS Institute ]
January 2008-
Generalized linear mixed models are widely used in medicine, agriculture, social sciences and others. In this paper a methodology is proposed to interpret subject-specific curves in a logistic model with random effects applied to a longitudinal study. The proposal is to interpret the subject-specific curves across time as percentiles of a distribution that depends on the values of the random effects variance and the covariate parameters.
The Top Five Factors That Make Great Frontline Healthcare Workers
[ Source: Kronos ]
January 2008-
The healthcare industry is the fastest growing industry in the country, largely because of the increasing number of people in older age groups that need healthcare services. To address this staffing shortage, healthcare organizations need to implement a strategy to fill frontline positions by recruiting outside of the healthcare industry. While that means hiring individuals into these positions with no experience in healthcare, one must keep in mind that workers without a background in healthcare ....
IPR And Outsourcing: The Case Of Indian Pharmaceutical Industry
[ Source: University of North Carolina ]
January 2008-
Knowledge of data structures, data quality, data cleaning, SAS programming, data analysis, technical report preparation, and the ability to present analyses to management are all key skills needed by professionals. This paper from SAS describes an innovative new undergraduate program at the University of Memphis that teaches these skills to undergraduates. The undergraduate certificate in ""Data Analysis and Programming Using SAS Software"" is a first-of-its-kind program in the Americas and the third in the world. ....
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