Health Care Compliance

WHITE PAPER: If the worldwide health system is not in crisis, it is under intense pressure and cost cutting trends in the light of the global downturn are only set to continue. For most hospitals and medical establishments budget allocations for IT were expected to be smaller in 2009 than in 2008.

Posted: 24 Oct 2011 | Published: 26 Nov 2010

EGUIDE: Access this expert resource to learn how desktop virtualization can help health care organizations to bolster Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) compliance and implement electronic health record (EHR) systems.

Posted: 18 Jan 2012 | Published: 18 Jan 2012

EGUIDE: In this expert e-guide, you will learn about the different available EHR storage options, as well pros and cons of each, allowing you to better decide which storage system is right for you and your healthcare organization.

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 | Published: 16 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: Learn how to maximize electronic medical records (EMR) user adoption by providing fast, convenient, secure access to EMR data across multiple clients, where and when the clinician requests it.

Posted: 11 Jan 2012 | Published: 11 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: This white paper outlines three key steps that your organization can take to accelerate EHR and CPOE adoption. Read on to discover out how to make it faster and easier to deploy new clinical applications while optimizing the clinician experience, protecting patient data, and reducing cost and complexity.

Posted: 11 Jan 2012 | Published: 11 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: This IDC Health Insights white paper identifies the key benefits from desktop virtualization in the clinical environment and presents case studies from three hospitals with detailed interviews.

Posted: 09 Jan 2012 | Published: 01 Aug 2010

EGUIDE: In this day and age, hospitals are growing increasingly more dependent on wide area networks (WAN) to adequately share information without increasing costs though additional bandwidth or data circuits.  In this e-guide you will learn how one organization successfully implemented a WAN and how it can work for your organization too.

Posted: 30 Nov 2011 | Published: 30 Nov 2011

WHITE PAPER: The health care industry is beginning to fully embrace EHR as the foundation for sharing information and delivering quality patient care. The benefits of an electronic  environment are clearly recognized, but the transition from paper to pixel is difficult and requires a new strategy. Read on to learn how to simplify the transition to EHR.

Posted: 28 Nov 2011 | Published: 22 Nov 2011

EGUIDE: The HITECH Act has helped to not only increase productivity, but to streamline data exchange. While this increased efficiency, there are also many requirements that must be met in order ensure that these exchanges are HIPAA compliant. In this e-guide, learn how a well implemented security program can secure patient medical records.

Posted: 21 Nov 2011 | Published: 21 Nov 2011

EGUIDE: For hospitals, timely access to patient data is critical for maintaining normal operations during a natural or man-made disaster. This e-guide will help health care providers create and implement effective disaster recovery and business continuity plans -- complete with advice from providers who had to put those plans into action.

Posted: 02 Nov 2011 | Published: 02 Nov 2011

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: If data is encrypted, health care providers are not subject to new, strict data breach notification laws. Server, storage and network encryption adds yet another layer of protection. So why do so many organizations avoid encryption? This presentation download will cover the basics of encryption and explain why its benefits outweigh its costs.

Posted: 25 Oct 2011 | Published: 25 Oct 2011

EGUIDE: In order to maintain patient privacy while complying with HIPAA standards, medical records must be tightly protected and there must be a solid backup plan in place in the case of a data breach. In this e-guide, learn how to prevent data breaches as well as what to do should a safety breach occur.

Posted: 21 Oct 2011 | Published: 21 Oct 2011

EGUIDE: Health care CIOs are caught between a rock and a hard place. On one hand, demanding patients and increasing numbers of wireless medical devices are requiring they open up their wireless networks. On the other, tighter rules for HIPAA compliance are forcing them to lock networks down. Find out how your peers are coping with this challenge.

Posted: 21 Oct 2011 | Published: 21 Oct 2011

EGUIDE: In an ever-digitized storage environment, there can be an array of threats posed to patient medical records. Amidst all of these concerns, how can you be sure which virtual server environment is right for you? In this exclusive e-guide, learn how one company successfully took the leap to a virtualized server environment.

Posted: 14 Oct 2011 | Published: 14 Oct 2011

WEBCAST: For all healthcare providers, properly secured email and other web 2.0 tools help lower costs while improving service delivery. But failing to protect patient data or meet regulatory requirements could mean large fines and strict penalties. Watch this webcast to uncover the top 5 messaging and collaboration risks.

Posted: 13 Oct 2011 | Premiered: Oct 13, 2011

WHITE PAPER: Thanks to new advances in storage technologies, healthcare providers today have a better alternative to PACS. Learn how adding networked storage hardware that runs on a single platform can integrate PACS applications, enhance interdepartmental communication and improve the security and sustainability of data archives.

Posted: 26 Sep 2011 | Published: 26 Sep 2011

EGUIDE: Something as seemingly trivial as a truck hitting a telephone pole can suddenly leave health care employees unable to access clinical applications and patient data. This tip discusses how providers can create, and update, business continuity plans to ensure that key systems and processes are maintained.

Posted: 20 Sep 2011 | Published: 20 Sep 2011

EGUIDE: The HIPAA Security Rule requires all HIPAA covered entities to create a plan for first protecting and then restoring confidential patient data in the event of a disaster. Unfortunately, HIPAA does not say much about what should go into such a disaster recovery plan. Inside this e-guide, find tips for a compliant disaster recovery plan.

Posted: 19 Sep 2011 | Published: 19 Sep 2011

WHITE PAPER: Healthcare facilities are rapidly adopting electronic health records (EHR) in order to meet regulatory compliance requirements. Central to this effort is document conversion — the scanning of new and existing records to digital format. Inside this white paper, uncover best practices for a HIPAA-compliant approach to EHR transition.

Posted: 15 Sep 2011 | Published: 14 Sep 2011

WHITE PAPER: PACs systems are expensive to support and the rising volume of medical image data is outpacing the limited functionality of the traditional PACS archive. So how can healthcare facilities ensure that medical images are securely stored, while meeting EHR compliance requirements? Learn about the storage and data management options available to help.

Posted: 15 Sep 2011 | Published: 14 Sep 2011

WHITE PAPER: 70% of hospitals expect to meet EHR meaningful use guidelines this year. Yet, 78% expect to continue to treat patients using paper records for up to 5 more years despite the financial incentive for meeting these requirements. Inside this white paper, learn how your peers are transitioning to an EHR system.

Posted: 15 Sep 2011 | Published: 14 Sep 2011

WHITE PAPER: Aging IT systems, shrinking budgets, and inefficient, paper-based processes are creating an unsustainable and error-prone work environment. This white paper reveals the major obstacles to EHR adoption and explores the cost benefits of virtualization with Hyper-V.

Posted: 13 Sep 2011 | Published: 13 Sep 2011

EZINE: Cloud computing holds a lot of promise for the healthcare industry, since infrastructure costs can hinder the adoption of EHR systems. However, many providers shy away from cloud services because of security concerns. Inside this e-zine, gain insight on how to utilize the cloud while still ensuring patient data security and HIPAA compliance.

Posted: 09 Sep 2011 | Published: 09 Sep 2011

EZINE: Using EHRs means that terabytes of patient records must be stored for decades at a time. Doing this without breaking the bank means deciding which storage approach is right for your healthcare facility. Inside this exclusive e-zine, learn about a variety of storage strategies, including tiered storage, thin provisioning and data replication.

Posted: 30 Aug 2011 | Published: 30 Aug 2011

CASE STUDY: Medical facility, Associates in Rehabilitation Medicine, was concerned about its current network security solution's ability in protecting confidential and private patient data from possible hackers, as well as VPN performance. View this case study to learn how they were able to tackle these challenges by switching to Astaro Security Gateway.

Posted: 30 Aug 2011 | Published: 30 Aug 2011