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- Automating IT Regulatory Compliance for Healthcare Providers
- This paper is one of a series outlining the challenges healthcare providers face in Information Technology IT, and the best practices for meeting those challenges. This paper focuses on the specific topic of regulatory compliance. Healthcare providers face a constantly changing regulatory landscape. Faced with numerous mandates to satisfy, they...
- Tags: Information Technology, Health Care Company, Health Care, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Strategy, Security, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Management
- White papers 2007-11-01
- Managing Storage Complexity for Healthcare Providers
- This paper is one of a series of papers that focus on the challenges healthcare providers face in information technology and the best practices for meeting those challenges. This paper focuses on the specific topic of data storage management. Advances in diagnostic technology and the increasing popularity of digital medical...
- Tags: Data Storage, Health Care Company, Health Care, Storage, Storage Management, Hardware
- White papers 2007-11-01
- Critical Infrastructure Security for Healthcare Providers
- The Best Practices Series for Health Care discusses the challenges that healthcare providers face in information technology - and the best practices for meeting those challenges. This paper, in particular, focuses on critical infrastructure security. Practices and services implemented by healthcare providers today that improve quality of care, decrease costs,...
- Tags: Health Care Company, Health Care, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Security, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources
- White papers 2007-11-01
- Managing Electronic Messaging and E-Discovery for Healthcare Providers
- As corporate messaging systems grow, enterprises struggle with the complex task of not only finding sufficient storage space, but also ensuring that they can locate relevant messages from within that ever-growing mass. Healthcare providers face these same challenges and more, with their increasing reliance on email and other electronic communication,...
- Tags: Health Care Company, Health Care, Messaging, Litigation, Vertical Industries, Groupware, Benefits, Healthcare, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources
- White papers 2007-11-01
- Clinical Forms Automation - Click-Through Demo (msi)
- This is a portable, interactive demo that closely simulates the UI and functionality of an actual solution. Installs to your Start menu and includes a presenter script. Scenario Summary: Healthcare providers face ongoing business challenges including the need to reduce costs, comply with government regulatory requirements, and consistently improve patient...
- Tags: Health Care Company, Health Care, Automation, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources
- Software downloads 2007-09-20
- Specialist Women's Healthcare Provider Implements New Information Management System
- Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust is England's largest specialist women's healthcare provider. As operational requirements became more complex, the Trust's IT infrastructure grew more challenging. The number of servers storing data rose and increasingly employees found it time consuming to locate information distributed around the network. Plus, with the existing...
- Tags: Information Management, Dell Computer Corp., Women, Health Care Company, Health Care, Liverpool Women, Gender And Diversity, Human Resources
- Case studies 2006-09-25
- Simplify and Help Secure Access to Critical Information: Identity Management and Single Sign-On Solutions for Healthcare Providers
- This white paper discusses the advantages of IBM security management offerings, which are designed to deliver integrated, end-to-end identity and access management solutions across a heterogeneous environment. Specifically, this white paper discusses how this comprehensive offering of software, services and expertise from IBM can help healthcare organizations create an on...
- Tags: Microsoft Access, Access Management, Health Care Company, Health Care, Single Sign-on, IBM Corp., Identity Management, Authentication/Encryption, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Security, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources
- White papers 2006-06-01
- The New Threat: Attackers That Target Healthcare Organizations (and What You Can Do About It)
- HealthCare Organizations HCOs are facing a new threat. They're being targeted by financially motivated attackers that steal and sell valuable data - including identities - and computing resources. Armed with sophisticated tools, attackers exploit countless software vulnerabilities that exist in the multitude of systems a provider relies upon, including web-based...
- Tags: Attacker, Health Care Company, Health Care, Security
- White papers 2006-05-18
- Securing the Healthcare With Taceo
- Any healthcare provider or organization that works with patient healthcare data is at risk for losing control of this information. Unprotected electronic files containing sensitive data can easily be accessed, altered, stolen and re-distributed to unauthorized parties. Electronic Protected Health Information EPHI is subject to stringent HIPAA regulations; penalties for...
- Tags: Electronic Protected Health Information, Health Care Company, Health Care, Essential Security Software, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Hipaa, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Regulations, Government
- White papers 2006-01-18
- Spyware Meets HIPAA
- The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act HIPAA is broad federal legislation requiring, among other things, that healthcare providers and payers implement electronic safeguards to protect patient data confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Through HIPAA's Security Rule healthcare organizations are instructed to identify and mitigate security threats and vulnerabilities. One type...
- Tags: Health Care Company, Health Care, Spyware, Security Rule, Hipaa, Regulatory Compliance, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Regulations, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Healthcare, Cyberthreats, Security, Government, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2005-11-08
- Online Seminar: HIPAA Demystified
- Healthcare organizations are increasingly using e-mail as a critical communication tool to improve efficiency and patient care while lowering costs. While e-mail provides tremendous benefits, it is imperative that these organizations understand all of the confidentiality requirements dictated by HIPAA in order to achieve and maintain compliance with this...
- Tags: Health Care Company, Mirapoint Inc., Hipaa, Regulatory Compliance, Regulations, E-mail, Healthcare, Government, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures, Online Communications
- Webcasts 2005-09-27
- Check HIPAA compliance with this Excel calculator
- The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act HIPAA requires all healthcare organizations using electronic protected health information ePHI, as well as some third-party vendors business associates that handle that information, to comply with federal regulations aimed at protecting the privacy of patient data.We've updated our original "HIPAA risk calculator" from...
- Tags: calculator, compliance, consultant, health, health care, health care company, health insurance, HIPAA, HIPAA Privacy, Microsoft Excel, monitoring, patient, privacy, regulation, security, spreadsheet
- Download resources 2005-08-18
- Implement a performance measurement system to comply with JCAHO
- Healthcare organizations throughout the United States require licenses or certifications from state and federal agencies. These certifications are typically the result of unannounced site visits by an inspector whose objective is to ensure that the organization is complying with minimal standards as outlined in applicable regulatory guidelines. The results of...
- Tags: JCAHO, health care, Scott Withrow, accreditation, health care company, performance
- Technical articles 2003-10-31
- Security certs may be mandatory for IT pros in financial and healthcare fields
- If you've been in IT for any length of time, you've heard the debates about experience vs. certification. Experienced professionals sometimes claim that they do not need a certification to prove their knowledge, since hands-on experience is the best proof of all. Others, who are trying to advance their careers,...
- Tags: Allen Keele, certification, financial, health care, health care company, HIPAA, information security, information technology, security
- Technical articles 2003-05-02
- Download this sample business associate agreement for HIPAA compliance
- Consultants who handle private patient information from healthcare organizations have to sign a Business Associate agreement when renewing contracts or hammering out new ones. Here's a sample agreement you can use to prepare for negotiations.As a result of recent changes to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act HIPAA, business...
- Tags: Regulatory compliance, Vertical industries, Benefits, Regulations, HEALTHCARE, Beth Blakely, health care, business associate agreement, HIPAA, agreement, health care company, Luba Halich
- Technical articles 2002-10-11
- Calculate your client's HIPAA noncompliance risk
- The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act HIPAA places new requirements on any healthcare organization that transfers private information electronically. Use this spreadsheet to see if your clients need help with HIPAA.With deadlines for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act HIPAA approaching in October, many consultants who count healthcare...
- Tags: Regulatory compliance, Regulations, HEALTHCARE, Benefits, PRODUCTIVITY, Paul Baldwin, HIPAA, health care, health care company
- Technical articles 2002-05-22
- Healthcare: Have you landed your contract?
- A recent report from Gartner suggests that several trends and work generated by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act will continue to motivate healthcare organizations to outsource IT work. Has this been the case? Join the discussion.Is healthcare one of the biggest sources of new business for consultants? That...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Paul Baldwin, health care, health care company, Gartner Inc.
- Technical articles 2002-03-18
- HIPAA: New standards mean big changes to healthcare information security
- Designed to improve information transfer within the healthcare system, this law will radically change the way companies manage patient records. Find out what changes HIPAA will require in the management and security of this data.By Ed SkoudisThe Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (Public Law 104-191)—HIPAA—was enacted as...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Regulatory compliance, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Regulations, security, health care, HIPAA, health care company
- Technical articles 2001-09-04
- Healthcare Organizations Drive Up Efficiency and Drive Down Costs With BMC IT Service Support Express
- Nowadays healthcare organizations are under pressure from patients, insurers, government entities, and other stakeholders to contain costs while improving the quality of patient care. Providing physicians, nurses, technicians, and other healthcare professionals with easy access to the systems that support all aspects of delivering patient services is essential to meeting...
- Tags: BMC Software Inc., Patient, Information Technology, Health Care Company, Health Care, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, It Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, It service Management
- Case studies
- Semeron Case Study: Healthcare Organization
- Semeron's client is a leading healthcare organization competing for scarce, qualified and highly skilled individuals. They needed to assess and acquire an automation solution for their HR and create a plan for migrating their manual processes and filing system to a computer-enabled, automated solution to reduce manual processes and save...
- Tags: Health Care Company, Health Care, Semeron, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources
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