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. 

With the provisions provided in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), healthcare providers are now encouraged to adopt this technology. However, expenses needed to implement an EHR platform may create significant barriers for adoption. Learn about an EHR support tool that reduces the costs and risks associated with implementation. 

View this webcast to gain expert insight into the current state and complexity of the security breaches landscape. You’ll hear about some of the more immediate areas of critical concern and practical ways that you can prepare your organization to mitigate the associated risks in the year ahead. 

Forrester Consulting studied the total economic impact and potential return on investment (ROI) that healthcare facilities may realize by deploying VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure. Learn more about the financial impact of moving from a traditional one-PC-per-user model to a centralized, hosted virtual-desktop delivery model. 

In this two part course, Deputy Executive Director for ARMA International, Diane K. Carlisle, reveals how Generally Accepted Recordkeeping Principles (GARP®) is designed to assist organizations in implementing records systems and policies to keep you out of the headlines for the wrong reasons. 

Data loss prevention (DLP) in healthcare entails preventing confidential patient records from falling into the wrong hands and requires thought out, well-enforced policies and the technology to back them up. Inside this resourceful e-book, learn how to achieve DLP through data encryption, monitoring tools, risk assessments and more. 

View this paper to describe how Centrify DirectAudit can solve the security, compliance and third-party access challenges organizations face when auditing and monitoring UNIX, Linux and Windows systems and discover why traditional approaches cannot address the requirements of today's changing environment. 

In this week’s Computer Weekly, we look at the importance of IT strategy when budgets are under pressure. The first part of our Buyer’s Guide to virtualisation examines the barriers preventing many organisations from adopting the technology; and Transport for London’s CIO talks about how IT helps avoid Olympic travel chaos. Download the issue now. 

If a server goes down in a hospital, it is a matter of life and death. In this paper, learn how healthcare IT managers are keeping their data centers up and running 24/7 with an infrastructure that is robust enough to support new healthcare IT initiatives, including Electronic Medical Records systems. 

Each month many companies, big or small, well known or unknown, experience a data security loss with the potential exposure of thousands to millions of sensitive customer or employee records. This brief examines cryptographic methods, specifically tape data encryption, to combat such security losses. 

The government will pay incentives to healthcare providers who implement EHR.  There’s still time to register, but you must decide whether to participate as a Medicare or Medicaid provider.  Each has different eligibility criteria and deadlines.  If you are uncertain which is the right choice for your practice, this guide will help.