Healthcare Webinar: Building Smarter Healthcare Processes -- Are You Prepared?

Thu, 05 Aug 2010 07:54:28 -0700

The pace of change for Healthcare has never been faster or more demanding - from ongoing regulatory and policy changes to increasing pressure to deliver superior care and coverage with the utmost of transparency while reducing costs. Find out how the role technologies such as Business Rule Management Systems (BRMS) and Optimization software will play in helping Healthcare organizations of all types and sizes build smarter processes that allow you to adapt to change faster, overcome process silos and improve patient care and safety.

Smarter Healthcare Processes in 2010. Reduce Costs, Increase Productivity, Deliver Best Outcomes with IBM ILOG Business Rule Management System (BRMS) and Optimization Software.

Thu, 05 Aug 2010 07:49:37 -0700

The pace of change for Healthcare has never been faster or more demanding - from ongoing regulatory and policy changes to increasing pressure to deliver superior care and coverage with the utmost of transparency while reducing costs. Find out how the role technologies such as Business Rule Management Systems (BRMS) and Optimization software will play in helping Healthcare organizations of all types and sizes build smarter processes that allow you to adapt to change faster, overcome process silos and improve patient care and safety.

TechNet Webcast: Service Manager 2010: Automate and Simplify Compliance and Risk Management (Level 200)

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 22:21:21 -0700

For any organization, regulatory compliance, and risk management are very important aspects. These are costly and complex, and the organization, manages then either through manuals or through disconnected processes, within an organization. This webcast presented by Clare Henry, Principal Product Manager - System Center Service Manager, Microsoft Corporation gives you much insight about how to automate and simplify compliance and risk management. Throughout this 15 minutes webcast, the presenter clearly explains the methods through which you can automate these two difficult processes. There are hundreds of standard and regulations like Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX) etc. This webcast tells the attendee how Microsoft System Center Service Manager 2010 can help one automate the activities related to risk management and regulatory compliance very easily. There is a panel discussion at the end of this webcast, and the attendee can ask experts the queries that they have regarding, compliance, or risk management, or Microsoft solutions.

Protecting Enterprise Data with Proofpoint Encryption

Thu, 10 Jun 2010 13:41:27 -0700

Learn more about Proofpoint Encryption, Proofpoint's easy-to-deploy and easy-to-use policy-based email encryption solution and why email encryption is a critical component of today's email security solutions. Download this whitepaper to learn about: A brief overview of regulatory trends that are driving the adoption of encryption and DLP solutions. How email encryption plays a critical role in data loss prevention. Challenges associated with deploying traditional email encryption solutions. How Proofpoint Encryption eliminates key management, administration and end-user adoption issues associated with traditional email encryption solutions.

Bronson Healthcare Group Expedites Patient Care and Meets HIPAA Requirements With Netapp Solution

Fri, 23 Apr 2010 08:26:21 -0700

Bronson Healthcare Group is a community-owned, not-for-profit healthcare system headquartered in Kalamazoo, Michigan, that has been serving patients since 1900. The challenge was to eliminate imaging bottlenecks, support 20% annual growth rates and build in scalability for growth. Bronson teamed with its PACS vendor, eMed Technologies, to select a networked storage solution using a NetApp Fabric-Attached Storage (FAS) system to provide high-speed access to a large volume of digital images managed by the eMed Matrix PACS system. The health system then launched a second project to completely eliminate film and improve access to historical images stored on the optical disk system.

Evaluating Secure Remote Desktop Access Models

Tue, 06 Apr 2010 17:05:35 -0700

This Tolly report compares Software as a Service (SaaS) via Citrix® GoToMyPC® Corporate to traditional virtual private networks (VPNs). The report also includes a side-by-side comparison chart and a detailed cost analysis.

Leveraging GoToMyPC Corporate to Boost Productivity

Tue, 06 Apr 2010 17:01:19 -0700

In this new white paper, discover how to improve overall corporate productivity by leveraging Web-based remote access such as Citrix® GoToMyPC® Corporate.

TechNet Webcast: Supporting HIPAA Compliance With SQL Server 2008 (Level 200)

Wed, 31 Mar 2010 02:57:00 -0700

In this webcast, the presenter provides insights for firms concerned with Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) compliance that are looking for ways to take advantage of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 features to help meet their compliance requirements. SQL Server 2008 provides numerous robust technical security and auditing features and functionality. The presenter focuses on features supporting the technical safeguard requirements of the HIPAA Security Rule and pay particular attention to features used by firms storing, processing, or transmitting electronic Protected Health Information (ePHI), including database auditing capabilities, Transparent Database Encryption (TDE), Extensible Key Management (EKM), policy-based management, and reporting services.

HIPAA 5010 and ICD-10: The Road to Compliance

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 01:06:36 -0700

Healthcare payers and providers are facing two major compliance initiatives over the next couple of years: conversion from the HIPAA 4010 electronic transaction set to the 5010 set and conversion from ICD-9 codesets to ICD-10. These initiatives will impact nearly every core process, system and interface across the industry, and industry costs are expected to be in the billions of dollars. Although healthcare stakeholders are facing 2012 and 2013 regulatory deadlines, few have begun actively planning for conversion. Industry research has shown that many organizations are still in the information gathering phase, trying to assess potential impacts on themselves, their vendors and business partners.

Which Hospitals Are Complying With HIPAA: An Empirical Investigation of US Hospitals

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 04:53:08 -0800

Since the passage of HIPAA regulation, US hospitals have gone on a high gear by investing organizational resources on HIPAA policy and procedures, information technologies, and information privacy & security safeguards to achieve compliance status by the enforcement dates. Yet, recent industry report, conducted post HIPAA enforcement deadlines, presents a bleak picture of HIPAA compliance, raising concerns for the privacy and security of patient data, as well transactional efficiency of hospitals. Drawing from organizational sociology and organizational behavior literature the paper examines propensity of hospitals being fully compliant with privacy, security and transaction rules of HIPAA.

HIPAA Compliance in Home Health: A Neo-Institutional Theoretic Perspective

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 04:52:06 -0800

As the baby boomers age and the focus of healthcare shifts from acute care to chronic care, home healthcare will become increasingly important in controlling cost and improving quality. Health IT will undoubtedly play critical role toward these goals. Yet, growing adoption of Health IT raises important questions related to privacy and security of protected health information, necessitating a better understanding of compliance to HIPAA regulation, which mandates privacy and security safeguards by care providers. This paper investigates the prevalence of HIPAA compliance in home healthcare to identify drivers influencing HIPAA compliance in home health agencies. When a new regulation is introduced, organizations respond by changing their business practices and adopting new processes and infrastructure to comply with requirements set forth by regulation.

HIPAA Compliance: An Examination of Institutional and Market Forces

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 04:51:03 -0800

One would think that the enactment of the HIPAA, with its mandates on data security and privacy, would have brought a major shift in the security management practices within the US healthcare. Unfortunately, recent industry reports indicate low levels of regulatory compliance, thus raising security concerns for the US health IT infrastructure. This research develops a regulatory compliance model by drawing insights from the institutional theory literature to identify the key drivers influencing HIPAA compliance, both institutional and market forces (e.g., variability in state-level privacy laws comprehensiveness, interdependency between privacy and security rules, pressure from compliance leaders in the region, compliance officer's functional background, and the consumer concern for privacy).

Novell Case Study: Enloe Medical Center

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 05:50:20 -0800

Enloe Medical Center is a 391-bed hospital serving more than 400,000 residents in a six-county region in Northern California. Physicians and clinicians at Enloe Medical Center were frustrated by having to remember multiple passwords to access patient care applications. The center implemented Novell SecureLogin to provide single sign-on access, reducing passwords by 85 percent and login times by 60 percent. The medical center also improved its ability to comply with increasingly stringent HIPAA requirements.

Protecting Patient Health Information in the HITECH Era: Security Challenges for Adopting Health Information Technology to Comply With HIPAA and the HITECH Act

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 05:01:47 -0800

The American Healthcare system is getting a complete facelift thanks to incentives to adopt Health Information Technology introduced by the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act. Signed into law by President Barack Obama in February 2009, the HITECH Act is part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. It is also part of the broader healthcare reform initiative championed by President Obama. That agenda includes a push for the adoption of interoperable data capture, storage and transmission protocols in healthcare systems. New health information technology is considered to be a vital step in the drive to reduce costs, gain efficiencies, and ultimately to improve patient care.

Supporting Compliance: A Network Approach

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 03:49:00 -0800

With the significant increase in compliance related mandates put upon IT organizations today, Enterasys has written this white paper to explain the approach to supporting compliance through advanced policy-driven networking. Regulatory compliance and governance mandates are new and daunting issues for any IT organization. These requirements for compliance can come from outside the organization in the form of government legislation, such as HIPAA or Sarbanes-Oxley. They can also come from the inside of the organization in the form of organizational governance edicts from executive management. In either case, the network infrastructure must play a role in supporting the often abstract requirements of compliance, while at the same time ensuring that the business objectives of the organization are still being met.