Beyond FTP: Securing And Managing File Transfers [ Source: Linoma Software ]
August 2009- Few managers realize the security and management risks that have blossomed in their organization with the prevalent use of FTP. This paper demonstrates how you can bring FTP into a modern framework that increases IT manageability while decreasing security exposures and adhering to growing compliance/auditing requirements.

Role-Based Access Governance And HIPAA Compliance: A Pragmatic Approach [ Source: Aveksa ]
August 2010- The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH) imposed more stringent regulatory and security requirements to the privacy rules of HIPAA. Compliance with the letter of the guideline can be difficult for organizations without strong access governance processes and policies.

Healthcare organizations often struggle to maintain a consistent approach to govern user access across information resource, and as a result, may have an incomplete or fragmented posture of compliance throughout ...

Financial Data at Risk in Development: A Call for Data Masking [ Source: Informatica ]
November 2010- This Informatica sponsored study, conducted by the Ponemon Institute, surveyed 437 senior IT professionals in the financial services industry whose organizations have been engaged in application testing and development in order to better understand if the risk of using real data in development is being addressed.

An overlooked privacy risk for financial services organizations is the vulnerability of personal and business information used for testing and application development. During the test and development phase ...

Redefining Value and Success in Healthcare: Charting the path to the future [ Source: IBM ]
April 2012- Transformation of the healthcare industry is finally happening, and with dramatic energy, driven by a fundamental shift in the expectations of all stakeholders - patients, governments, payers, employers and providers.<br><br> Today, the market is rejecting the three major structural deficiencies that have resulted in the industry's systemic challenges:<br> 1) An over-emphasis on expensive advances in medical technology that yield incremental improvements in outcomes, with inadequate consideration to ...

Fade or flourish? Rethinking the role of life sciences companies in the healthcare ecosystem [ Source: IBM ]
April 2012- The life sciences industry stands at a crossroads. Its business model is broken, and the surrounding healthcare ecosystem is changing dramatically. So how should companies respond?<br><br> They can carry on as normal and potentially fade into insignificance or completely rethink how they engage with the other stakeholders in the healthcare ecosystem in an effort to flourish anew.<br><br> In today's increasingly complex and fast-changing ...

HP's prescription for next-generation data center networks [ Source: HP/Intel ]
November 2011- HP's extensive, modular data center product portfolio drives simplicity through streamlined network designs and centralized management; enhancing agility with high performance, security, and accelerated provisioning; and saving money with energy efficiency and low total cost of ownership.<br><br> In this paper, we'll lay out the challenges healthcare organizations are facing and how HP is the right partner to help solve them.

Healthcare Disaster Recovery Whitepaper [ Source: HP/Intel ]
November 2011- Bridgehead Software, the Healthcare Storage Virtualization (HSV) company, offers a scalable, future-proof platform to overcome rising data volumes and increasing storage costs while delivering peace of mind around the access, availability and protection of electronic patient data.<br><br> Trusted by more than 1,000 hospitals worldwide, Bridgehead Software solves healthcare organizations backup, recovery and archiving challenges.<br><br> Download this whitepaper to learn more about why backup and ...

Foundations for the Future: Building a Better ACO [ Source: Optum ]
September 2011- The health care industry is undergoing a transformation - spurred by an unsustainable reimbursement model that rewards volume rather than outcome. Many alternatives are being considered, including pay for performance, accountable care organizations (ACOs) and private ACO-like models, medical homes and bundled payments. Although the destination is not certain, it's clear that providers, payers, employers and patients are interested in a health care ecosystem that is aligned, connected and intelligent. With these initiatives gaining momentum ...