Six Critical Elements to Achieving Economies in Healthcare IT Security and Compliance [ Source: Lumension ]

July 2010- Through process automation and security control enforcement, Lumension eases the healthcare IT security compliance burden by delivering on the six elements of compliance economy: agility, consistency, efficiency, transparency, accountability, and security.

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.

Application Portfolio Management: Delivering Improved Functionality [ Source: Lionbridge Technologies ]

November 2008- APM is one of the best tools for evaluating, balancing, and enhancing the value of application portfolios and supporting fact-based decision making. This white paper provides a framework for implementing an APM program that will enable your organization to monitor and analyze the impact of technology and application changes; align changing business and technology objectives; reduce portfolio complexity and cost of ownership; and increase return on portfolio investment and performance.

Integrating Clinical Data With the Oracle Life Sciences Data Hub [ Source: Oracle ]

January 2008- Today’s life sciences companies must gain rapid insight into the safety and efficacy profile of any compound or device under development. Any delay in pulling together all the safety data for a compound postpones safety analysis, which can expose patients unnecessarily to dangerous compounds and even cause the approval of a product that is not as safe as originally perceived. In addition, rapidly pulling together all available patient data for a particular compound or ...

A Dynamic Example of Delivering Patient Management Identification Opportunities Using SAS/IntrNet [ Source: SAS Institute ]

January 2008- The SAS/IntrNet application provides instant access to almost 5 million health claim and clinical information records. It is designed to focus and prioritize patients for interaction through Aetnas behavioral health case management and disease management programs. Through the company intranet, nurse case managers have the ability to search for patients by program, service area, employer (plan sponsor), or Aetna office. A submitted search produces a prioritized list of patients meeting criteria provided to the ...

A Cross-Functional Service-Oriented Architecture to Support Real-Time Information Exchange in Emergency Medical Response [ Source: New Jersey Institute of Technology ]

January 2008- Real-time information communication presents a persistent challenge to the emergency response community. This paper from New Jersey Institute of Technology describes a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) that uses shared data models of emergency incidents to support the exchange of data between heterogeneous systems. This architecture is employed in the Advanced Health and Disaster Aid Network (AID-N) system, a testbed investigating information technologies to improve interoperation among multiple emergency response organizations in the Washington DC Metropolitan region. ...

U.S. Health and Nutrition: SAS Survey Procedures and NHANES [ Source: SAS Institute ]

January 2008- This paper from SAS Institute describes, National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) is used to evaluate the health and nutrition of the United States (CDC 2005). It is composed of cross-sectional, nationally representative health examination surveys of the U.S. civilian, non-institutionalized population. A complex, stratified, multistage probability cluster sampling design is used in the surveys. Analyzing survey data such as the National Health and Nutrition Survey requires software that accounts for the complex design. ...

Data Management in Analyzing Clinic Trial Data - Metadata Application [ Source: SAS Institute ]

January 2008- Efficiently handling Clinical Trial Data based on the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) standard, the regulatory rules from U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and electronic data submission requirements is very important for Drug Development. This paper published by SAS Institute suggests an efficient procedure for data handling in the creation of data domain and analysis data sets, and an appropriate use of metadata. Applied wisely, metadata can circumvent many chaotic situations in ...