Healthcare: The Importance of Visual Privacy
[ Source: 3M ]
October 2010-
In an industry flooded with digitized information and disjointed acronyms — HITECH, HIPAA, PHI, to name but a few — the critical need for visual privacy can easily be swept away. Learn how to keep patient information safe and your organization healthy.
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 ...
Real-time Location Systems (RTLS) In Healthcare: Wi-Not Wi-Fi?
[ Source: Awarepoint Corporation ]
August 2009-
CIOs must ask some very important questions to appraise the cost and value of Wi-Fi-based RTLS: Are you really using existing infrastructure? What is the cost (in time and expertise) for on-going maintenance of Wi-Fi RTLS? How will Wi-Fi RTLStraffic affect your network? The “just add water” story Wi-Fi marketers publicize loses steam in real-world applications. Once you’ve optimized your Wi-Fi infrastructure for RTLS, you will need extensive location planning of highly trained individuals ...
Evaluating HITECH's Impact on Healthcare Privacy and Security
[ Source: Bit9 ]
August 2010-
Today's evolving threat landscape has made IT security a top priority for healthcare organizations. Top medical centers targeted by virus and advanced threats need a proactive approach to endpoint security. The HITECH Act further prioritizes privacy and security - with significant potential monetary benefit. Find out how healthcare IT professionals are securing patient data and their enterprise.
Deliver Healthcare Services Faster
[ Source: Ciena ]
March 2010-
Discover how a healthcare services institution built a network solution that ensured its healthcare and administration applications were delivered to the point of need quickly, securely and in the most efficient and resilient way possible.
Download this whitepaper and you will discover ways to:
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Windows 7: A Prescription for Desktop Health
[ Source: Dell/Microsoft ]
February 2012-
If you're an IT exec at a healthcare organization responsible for maintaining systems and end users, smoothing out electronic medical records implementations, and modernizing your mobility and desktop solutions, take a dose of this Windows 7 desktop migration strategy. You'll have happy healthcare systems and improve patient care!
EMC Customer Profile: Region Hovedstaden
[ Source: EMC ]
December 2009-
According to this EMC report, EMC solutions help hospitals enhance future efficiency and green IT operations.
EMC Perspective: Health Maintenance For Storage Environments
[ Source: EMC ]
January 2009-
Whether the system is a customer-facing online ordering application or a back-office communications platform, the business runs on information. The costs of data loss or system downtime are high. That is why managing business risk begins with managing data access, data availability, and application response times.
Improving Availability in a Digital Hospital: Balancing High Levels of IT Availability with Energy Efficiency
[ Source: Emerson Network Power ]
November 2010-
When it comes to healthcare IT systems, downtime is not an option. To ensure patient data is always available at the point of care, the hospital’s network closet IT infrastructure – power, cooling and monitoring – must be properly designed. In this paper, you’ll learn the essential points IT and facility managers need to know when evaluating the benefits and costs associated with powering and cooling a hospital’s network closets.
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Managing the Explosion of Medical Data
[ Source: HP ]
October 2012-
Healthcare providers are beginning to leverage big data as an increasingly important asset. But the explosion of data, fueled in large part by the growth of electronic medical records (EMRs), is presenting significant challenges for healthcare IT organizations, including how to manage and store all of this data and siloed storage infrastructures that make it difficult for institutions to share medical records across various departments. Fortunately, solutions are available to help healthcare organizations better manage ...