Health care facilities must be especially careful to ensure sensitive patient data is kept confidential. In this webcast, learn about security monitoring tools that help maintain data privacy and streamline 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. 

This whitepaper discusses how IBM Security Services offer methodologies to help organizations achieve HIPAA compliance. 

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. 

Medical practices have been contemplating the prospect of moving from paper-based records to EHR systems for decades. But relatively few have made the transition – until now. This white paper examines the factors that have kept many medical practices from moving forward with EHR over the years and the factors that are prompting action today. 

If we are at or approaching a technological tipping point in the history of healthcare, then it has never been more important for physician practices to select the right electronic health record (EHR) – and there are tangible reasons to believe so.  This white paper discusses criteria for selecting the right EHR solution. 

For hospitals, the only thing more important than access to patient data in a disaster is timely access to patient data. This Health IT Interactive Classroom will help providers create and implement effective disaster recovery and business continuity plans -- complete with advice from providers who had to put those plans into action. 

This month’s Information Security Magazine Online cover story dissects the recent HIPAA revisions made by the HITECH Act. 

By helping your data center more accurately visualize and control energy use, you'll reclaim facility capacity and optimize energy use en route to reducing costs for your organization. Read this white paper for the details. 

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. 

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. 

The more you know about built-in functionality in the .NET framework and ASP.NET, the less code you have to write, which ultimately makes your applications more maintainable. This white paper outlines several different tips to enhance developer productivity and reduce the amount of code that needs to be written in many cases.