The quarterly Pulse e-zine delves into a range of issues affecting hospitals, doctors, payers, policymakers and other industry stakeholders. Explore the hottest topics that impact IT decision makers today and gain knowledge from peers through snapshots of trends, SearchHealthIT industry research and our on-location conference coverage. 

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

Failure to have a disaster recovery plan (DRP) in place, could result in catastrophe for your health care organization.This E-Guide explores best practices and expert tips for implementing a DRP, ensuring HIPAA compliance and peace of mind. 

This paper is the fourth in a four-part series that addresses mobile communications in the healthcare industry. Part Four zeroes in on the features and capabilities that make BlackBerry smartphones an ideal match for healthcare industry requirements. 

To facilitate high-quality patient care, Memorial Hospital deployed a wireless LAN to provide both data and voice access throughout the facility. The instantaneous communication and broad information access has significantly improved the quality of patient care, because it lets staff spend more time caring for patients and less time on paperwork. 

While virtualization may be approaching maturity in many IT shops, it's just coming of age in hospital data centers. It may prove to be a golden age, however, as the push to virtualize gains momentum on all fronts: servers, storage, backup and desktop. Access this exclusive e-guide to read virtualization success stories from four health IT leaders. 

By incorporating finger biometric scanning into the solution, Parkview would enable each doctor or nurse to log on to any PC at the facility with a single fingertip swipe. 

How do you enable secure access from mobile devices without hindering doctors on the job? In this guide we walk you through the factors you need to consider to find a mobile device management solution that best fits your needs. 

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) enacted reform and standardization in the healthcare industry to protect patient confidentiality. Continue reading to learn more about the goals of HIPAA. 

The HIPAA Security Rule requires all HIPAA covered entities to create a plan for first protecting and then restoring confidential patient data in the event of a disaster. Unfortunately, HIPAA does not say much about what should go into such a disaster recovery plan. Inside this e-guide, find tips for a compliant disaster recovery plan. 

Learn how Rug Doctor, a leading manufacturer of cleaning products, improved its RTO/RPO and replaced its tape backup system using FalconStor CDP for fast disaster recovery (DR) in tandem with VMware technology for server virtualization. 

This document takes a look at several aspects of data protection and HIPAA compliance and explains how a Data Loss Prevention (DLP) solution can help IT professionals discover sensitive data at rest, monitor traffic in real time, and capture events for after-the-fact investigations.