The inaugural issue of BI Trends & Strategies offers sound advice to help you in ensuring your organization is on track to keep up with the rapidly changing landscape of BI and analytics. In this issue, readers will learn about a big data definition and the impact it will have on BI and data warehousing, agile development methodology and more. 

Properly addressing HIPAA is about more than mere data security. This virtual seminar will examine the other key components of HIPAA compliance within an organization, including disaster recovery, network security and hardware encryption. 

This E-Guide from SearchHealthIT.com examines why cloud backup and disaster recovery is becoming an increasingly more viable option for health care facilities looking to meet HIPAA requirements while safeguarding critical data off-site. 

This resource demonstrates how Iron Mountain's cloud storage solutions help health care facilities meet backup and disaster recovery challenges while maintaining HIPAA compliance. 

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. 

Effectively addressing the new HIPAA privacy and security rules introduced in the HITECH Act requires an assessment of your organization’s biggest vulnerabilities as well as the deployment of the right technology to reduce the risk of data loss. Inside this expert resource, gain insight on current healthcare security topics. 

Over time, the information security/risk management profession has developed a variety of methods for assessing risk within an organization. 

Gartner analysts, William Clark, David W Cearley and Avivah Litan, explain how business can exploit context-aware computing and social media. 

This white paper discusses at length how Utopia’s formal data migration methodology reduces the risks of large systems deployments by using a tried-and-tested framework for the entire migration process, from source data analysis through post-go-live support. 

In this case study, discover how one health care provider employed a pay-as-you-go, cloud-based storage model to help them save hundreds of thousands of dollars on their long-term archiving and disaster recovery requirements. 

This white paper explains the differences between the de-duplication approaches, discusses the strengths and limitations of each, shows how different backup tasks are likely to benefit from them, and talks about the business benefits. 

The federal government’s push for electronic healthcare records has made compliance and data security even more pressing. This e-guide offers a look at where healthcare IT leaders should begin, and what they should watch out for as they move to embrace the HITECH Act, HIPAA and other initiatives.