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Another State Calling For The End of Prescriptions On Paper - October 13, 2009
Orlando Florida - Iowa Health System officials called Monday for doctors statewide to get rid of prescriptions on paper and go entirely electronic.
Monday, the group announced their partnership with Allscripts to launch what's being called "e-prescribe Iowa."
The goal of this statewide initiative is to get all doctors to start sending prescriptions electronically. They hope to do this by offering the technology free of cost.
Officials said that every year 1.5-million Americans are injured and 7,000 die from medication errors. Officials said many of these could be prevented if doctors made the switch to electronic records.
"Electronic prescribing helps to eliminate errors, improve patient safety and reduce costs by making the prescribing process more efficient, more effective," said Bill Leaver, of Iowa Health Systems.
Officials said the electronic system also checks for patient allergies and harmful drug-to-drug interactions.
For more information please call (407) 265-6293 or visit us at: http://www.sencilo.com/healthIT
Why Sencilo HealthIT Solutions
When it comes to your healthcare computing needs, Sencilo HealthIT Solutions's main objective is to provide a turnkey solution that can essentially sustain itself. When you choose Sencilo HealthIT Solutions, you don't just gain a vendor who provides you with technology. You get a business partner who walks with you through every step of the process
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions eHealthcare Architecture: More than technology
With Sencilo HealthIT Solutions eHealthcare Architecture, you can leverage the same productivity tools and technology resources that have transformed business. And you get a full portfolio of services too. By working with Sencilo HealthIT Solutions, you can get:
A dedicated customer team
A website customized for your institution
A full portfolio of robust solutions
Easy setup, implementation and maintenance
Simple ordering and delivery
Technology training
Flexible financing options
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions Professional Services makes it easy
In addition to providing high-quality technology at a low cost, Sencilo HealthIT Solutions Professional Services can help you plan your healthcare computing from the ground up. By working with you from the initial construction phases, we can help you save time and money—and lead to a truly customized solution.
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions Professional Services offers complete services that include:
Design
Procurement
Installation
Training
Maintenance
Support
About Us
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions is a Florida-based integrator specializing in EMR EHR Cost Cutting storage, security and managed services solutions. Sencilo delivers a comprehensive portfolio of products from best-of-breed hardware and software from multiple manufacturers including VMware, Dell Fujitsu Data Domain, EMC, Hitachi, Symantec, HDS, IBM, Commvault, Xiotech and HP. Its technical expertise is known throughout the storage and security industry. Clients include leading corporations, major financial institutions, top universities, government facilities, as well as small to medium size businesses. Sencilo's professional services include consulting, integration, project management, storage virtualization installation, maintenance and knowledge transfer.
Sencilo has offices throughout Florida including: Jacksonville, Daytona Beach, Tampa, St. Petersburg, Orlando, Hialeah, St. Augustine, Gainesville, Ocala, Palm Coast, Clearwater, Kissimmee, Lakeland, Maitland and Cape Canaveral Green Simpana Offerings Projects: BC DR planning Replication De-Dup De-Dupe iSCSI SAN NAS VMware Security EMC NetApp HP IBM Quantum Compliance VTL Data Domain vs Gartner Magic Quadrant Quadrent LTO Backup Exc Pure Disk NetBackup Networker TSM Commvault BakBone D2D D2D2T compare cloud data deduplication thin provisioning DXi Global Compression DDX virtual tape library Data Reduction SEPATON FALCON compare Celerra CLARiiON Equallogic Sencilo HealthIT Solutions NS20 NS40 CX4 CX3-20 CX3-40 CX3-80 FAS2050 FAS3050 Xiotech Nexsan Avamar DLD3 1500 D3 Storwiz storage compression data Ocarina Networks A-SIS compare Sepaton infopro BlueArc OnStor Microsoft Unified Storage data protection StorageX Brocade FAQ SSD Solid state disk SANmelody FalconStor tier zero Xiotech ISE nx4 ax4 greenBytes ZFS Sun Top 10 ROBOBak managed services hosting cloud grid Datacore Compellent compellant equallogic lefthand networks don't buy storage stop buying storage itguardian cherub networks Arkeia Network Backup appliance Data Recovery Backup Health IT Healthcare IT Digital Hospital Allscripts Patient Data electronic health record P4P rules and the HITECH Act PayerView Rankings practice management tools $44,000 in Medicare or $66,000 in Medicaid from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act eClinicalWorks, Allscripts, NextGen, GE Centricity, and Meditech
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Majority of Healthcare Providers View Biggest Data Leakage Threat as Internal - October 8, 2009
IDC Survey Finds 57% of Companies Plan to Invest in Data Loss Prevention Technology, but 85% Believe Data Loss by External Hackers is Unlikely
Orlando Florida -- Sencilo HealthIT Solutions a leading Healthcare IT solutions and services provider, today announced the results of a new IT security survey -- conducted by market research firm IDC -- which revealed that most healthcare providers are placing investment in Data Loss Prevention (DLP) technology at the top of their priority list. While 57% of the companies polled said they plan to invest in DLP technology, three times the number of respondents said they believe data leakage is more likely to occur through accidental employee error (45%) than by external hackers with malicious intent (15%.)
A majority of respondents (85%) said they thought data loss through external hacking was "very unlikely", and 55% perceived intentional external data loss as having only "moderate impact" or "no impact at all" on their business. Additionally, more than 60% said they believe they are unlikely to be affected by virus attacks, says Brian J. McCarthy CEO of Sencilo HealthIT Solutions and well known security expert.
"The challenge when protecting an organization from internal data loss is that traditional defenses are designed to face outward, at the perimeter of a network, whereas the inside of the network remains relatively free of security controls. Compounding the problem, security awareness training initiatives for employees often go unfunded because organizations find it difficult to demonstrate a return on investment for such training," said Mccarthy. "To tackle these challenges, companies are moving toward DLP as it involves a holistic approach to the protection of information, rather than simply the protection of networks and systems. It creates automated, technical barriers to both human error and malicious intent"
The IDC research surveyed IT security decision makers at more than 400 healthcare organizations, with at least 5 employees each, in the Americas. Other key survey results include:
•Compliance variations. The research revealed that large organizations with more than 1,000 employees tended to be more compliant than smaller companies. In addition, companies in the Americas and in the public sector were more concerned about IT security regulations than those in other regions and industries.
•IT security spending. The survey found that from 2008 to 2009, 19% of the companies surveyed increased their overall IT spending while 41% decreased it, mainly due to the economic downturn. However, for nearly 60% of the organizations, the average spend on IT security within the overall IT budget remained at 10% or more.
•Shift to holistic approach. The surveyed companies appear to be shifting their investment focus away from point solutions to a more holistic approach, with 59% planning to invest in IT security audits and 52% in consulting services. This indicates a growing realization that reacting to security incidents, and ad-hoc acquisition of point technologies without regard to how they dovetail with others, is more costly and less effective than planning an integrated strategy.
For more information please call (407) 265-6293 or visit us at: http://www.sencilo.com/healthIT
Why Sencilo HealthIT Solutions
When it comes to your healthcare computing needs, Sencilo HealthIT Solutions's main objective is to provide a turnkey solution that can essentially sustain itself. When you choose Sencilo HealthIT Solutions, you don't just gain a vendor who provides you with technology. You get a business partner who walks with you through every step of the process
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions eHealthcare Architecture: More than technology
With Sencilo HealthIT Solutions eHealthcare Architecture, you can leverage the same productivity tools and technology resources that have transformed business. And you get a full portfolio of services too. By working with Sencilo HealthIT Solutions, you can get:
A dedicated customer team
A website customized for your institution
A full portfolio of robust solutions
Easy setup, implementation and maintenance
Simple ordering and delivery
Technology training
Flexible financing options
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions Professional Services makes it easy
In addition to providing high-quality technology at a low cost, Sencilo HealthIT Solutions Professional Services can help you plan your healthcare computing from the ground up. By working with you from the initial construction phases, we can help you save time and money—and lead to a truly customized solution.
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions Professional Services offers complete services that include:
Design
Procurement
Installation
Training
Maintenance
Support
About Us
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions is a Florida-based integrator specializing in EMR EHR Cost Cutting storage, security and managed services solutions. Sencilo delivers a comprehensive portfolio of products from best-of-breed hardware and software from multiple manufacturers including VMware, Dell Fujitsu Data Domain, EMC, Hitachi, Symantec, HDS, IBM, Commvault, Xiotech and HP. Its technical expertise is known throughout the storage and security industry. Clients include leading corporations, major financial institutions, top universities, government facilities, as well as small to medium size businesses. Sencilo's professional services include consulting, integration, project management, storage virtualization installation, maintenance and knowledge transfer.
Sencilo has offices throughout Florida including: Jacksonville, Daytona Beach, Tampa, St. Petersburg, Orlando, Hialeah, St. Augustine, Gainesville, Ocala, Palm Coast, Clearwater, Kissimmee, Lakeland, Maitland and Cape Canaveral Green Simpana Offerings Projects: BC DR planning Replication De-Dup De-Dupe iSCSI SAN NAS VMware Security EMC NetApp HP IBM Quantum Compliance VTL Data Domain vs Gartner Magic Quadrant Quadrent LTO Backup Exc Pure Disk NetBackup Networker TSM Commvault BakBone D2D D2D2T compare cloud data deduplication thin provisioning DXi Global Compression DDX virtual tape library Data Reduction SEPATON FALCON compare Celerra CLARiiON Equallogic Sencilo HealthIT Solutions NS20 NS40 CX4 CX3-20 CX3-40 CX3-80 FAS2050 FAS3050 Xiotech Nexsan Avamar DLD3 1500 D3 Storwiz storage compression data Ocarina Networks A-SIS compare Sepaton infopro BlueArc OnStor Microsoft Unified Storage data protection StorageX Brocade FAQ SSD Solid state disk SANmelody FalconStor tier zero Xiotech ISE nx4 ax4 greenBytes ZFS Sun Top 10 ROBOBak managed services hosting cloud grid Datacore Compellent compellant equallogic lefthand networks don't buy storage stop buying storage itguardian cherub networks Arkeia Network Backup appliance Data Recovery Backup Health IT Healthcare IT Digital Hospital Allscripts Patient Data electronic health record P4P rules and the HITECH Act PayerView Rankings practice management tools $44,000 in Medicare or $66,000 in Medicaid from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act eClinicalWorks, Allscripts, NextGen, GE Centricity, and Meditech
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Top 10 Reasons to go with a EMR / EHR solution now! - October 7, 2009
Orlando Florida -- Now that Healthcare IT is part of the stimulus and newsworthy, I receive many questions from reporters about the fundamentals of healthcare IT. Here's a primer with the Top 10 questions and answers:
1. Can you define EHR, EMR, PHR and PM in simple terms?
Electronic Medical Record - An electronic record of health-related information on an individual that can be created, gathered, managed, and consulted by authorized clinicians and staff within one health care organization.
Electronic Health Record - An electronic record of health-related information on an individual that conforms to nationally recognized interoperability standards and that can be created, managed, and consulted by authorized clinicians and staff, across more than one health care organization.
Personal Health Record - An electronic record of health-related information on an individual that conforms to nationally recognized interoperability standards and that can be drawn from multiple sources while being managed, shared, and controlled by the individual.
Practice Management - An application used to manage the physician business operations including scheduling, registration, and billing ...
2. How large is the unserved market for HIT?
There are 800,000 clinicians in the US. 17% have EHRs today. This leaves 664,000 who need EHRs. Over the next 5 years the early to mid-adopters will work hard to gain the full stimulus incentive amounts available in 2011-2012. Late adopters will gain the reduced stimulus available in 2013-2014. Resistors will begin receiving penalties in 2015.
3. How many companies are currently competing in the small practice/ ambulatory EHR market? Are there any clear leaders in terms of client base or innovation?
There are over 100 companies providing EHRs for small practices. In my experience the ambulatory market leaders are eClinicalWorks, Allscripts, NextGen, GE Centricity, and Meditech/LSS (for small practices tightly affiliated to a hospital using Meditech). Epic is a market leader but not for small practices.
4. What does “meaningful use” really mean? Do you think physicians currently feel compelled to wait for clearer language from the government on the interoperability standards before investing?
"Meaningful use" is demonstrating to the satisfaction of the Secretary that the professional is using a certified EHR in a meaningful manner, which includes the use of e-prescribing, electronic HIE, and submission of information on clinical quality measures. Additional clarity on interoperability will be complete by the end of 2009. I do not believe clinicians should wait for all the details before investing. They should begin EHR implementation now.
5. What other details about meaningful use are listed in the bill?
-The Secretary may develop more stringent measures of meaningful use over time.
-For eligible professionals that are not meaningful users of EHRs, Medicare reimbursements will be cut 1% in 2015, 2% in 2016, and 3% in 2017.
-If less than 75% of professionals are meaningful users in 2018, Secretary can cut reimbursements another 1 percentage point, to maximum of 5%.
-Exceptions to the reimbursement reductions may be made on a case-by-case basis for hardships.
-The CMS Website will list eligible professionals who are meaningful EHR users.
6. Will Healthcare Smart Cards replace PHRs?
Smart cards have not received wide acceptance in any US industry, although they are very popular in other parts of the world. Reading and writing to smart cards would require a substantial investment in hardware throughout the healthcare industry. There are likely to be privacy concerns associated with lost or stolen smart cards. For all these reasons, I believe it is much more likely that web-based Personal Health Records, such as those provided by Google, Microsoft, and Dossia, will be more popular than smart cards. These PHRs are secure, protect confidentiality, and are automatically updated by labs, pharmacies, hospitals, and clinician offices.
7. Will clinicians be able to migrate easily from one EHR to another?
Interoperability in 2009 includes e-Prescribing, laboratories and clinical summaries needed for continuity of care. It does not include every field in the EHR. Conversion for one to EHR to another requires a combination of automated and manual data transfer. For the next few years, replacing one EHR product with another will still be a data conversion challenge.
8. What is the roadmap for interoperability?
Over the past 3 years, HITSP has focused on Labs, Medications, Clinical Summaries, Public/Population Health, and Devices. In 2009 and beyond we'll add clinical research, newborn screening and close numerous gaps. In general, I believe meaningful use will include exchange of
Problems lists/Diagnoses
Medications including e-prescribing
Allergies
Text-based summaries
Quality data sets
Population health data sets submitted to CDC, public health departments, and other government agencies.
9. "After standards are adopted in 2009, the National Coordinator shall make available at a nominal fee an electronic health record, unless the Secretary determines that the needs and demands of providers are being substantially and adequately met by the marketplace. Nothing in the legislation requires that entities adopt or use the technology made available through this provision.” -from HITECH Act. Do you see this as a viable solution for small practices who want to wait it out and go with a cheaper software product?
Open Source may provide reduced licensing cost, but other costs beyond license fees are the majority of implementation expenditures including practice workflow redesign, interfaces, and training. Open Source is an important part of the nationwide acceleration of EHR implementation, but it is not a panacea.
10. Do you see PHR’s and EHR’s as separate markets currently and what about in the future?
PHRs and EHRs are different products and I do not believe that PHRs will replace EHRs. EHRs are workflow tools for clinicians. PHRs are lifetime clinical summary and workflow tools for the consumer. They are complementary not competitive technologies.
For more information please call (407) 265-6293 or visit us at: http://www.sencilo.com/healthIT
Why Sencilo HealthIT Solutions
When it comes to your healthcare computing needs, Sencilo HealthIT Solutions's main objective is to provide a turnkey solution that can essentially sustain itself. When you choose Sencilo HealthIT Solutions, you don't just gain a vendor who provides you with technology. You get a business partner who walks with you through every step of the process
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions eHealthcare Architecture: More than technology
With Sencilo HealthIT Solutions eHealthcare Architecture, you can leverage the same productivity tools and technology resources that have transformed business. And you get a full portfolio of services too. By working with Sencilo HealthIT Solutions, you can get:
A dedicated customer team
A website customized for your institution
A full portfolio of robust solutions
Easy setup, implementation and maintenance
Simple ordering and delivery
Technology training
Flexible financing options
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions Professional Services makes it easy
In addition to providing high-quality technology at a low cost, Sencilo HealthIT Solutions Professional Services can help you plan your healthcare computing from the ground up. By working with you from the initial construction phases, we can help you save time and money—and lead to a truly customized solution.
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions Professional Services offers complete services that include:
Design
Procurement
Installation
Training
Maintenance
Support
About Us
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions is a Florida-based integrator specializing in EMR EHR Cost Cutting storage, security and managed services solutions. Sencilo delivers a comprehensive portfolio of products from best-of-breed hardware and software from multiple manufacturers including VMware, Dell Fujitsu Data Domain, EMC, Hitachi, Symantec, HDS, IBM, Commvault, Xiotech and HP. Its technical expertise is known throughout the storage and security industry. Clients include leading corporations, major financial institutions, top universities, government facilities, as well as small to medium size businesses. Sencilo's professional services include consulting, integration, project management, storage virtualization installation, maintenance and knowledge transfer.
Sencilo has offices throughout Florida including: Jacksonville, Daytona Beach, Tampa, St. Petersburg, Orlando, Hialeah, St. Augustine, Gainesville, Ocala, Palm Coast, Clearwater, Kissimmee, Lakeland, Maitland and Cape Canaveral Green Simpana Offerings Projects: BC DR planning Replication De-Dup De-Dupe iSCSI SAN NAS VMware Security EMC NetApp HP IBM Quantum Compliance VTL Data Domain vs Gartner Magic Quadrant Quadrent LTO Backup Exc Pure Disk NetBackup Networker TSM Commvault BakBone D2D D2D2T compare cloud data deduplication thin provisioning DXi Global Compression DDX virtual tape library Data Reduction SEPATON FALCON compare Celerra CLARiiON Equallogic Sencilo HealthIT Solutions NS20 NS40 CX4 CX3-20 CX3-40 CX3-80 FAS2050 FAS3050 Xiotech Nexsan Avamar DLD3 1500 D3 Storwiz storage compression data Ocarina Networks A-SIS compare Sepaton infopro BlueArc OnStor Microsoft Unified Storage data protection StorageX Brocade FAQ SSD Solid state disk SANmelody FalconStor tier zero Xiotech ISE nx4 ax4 greenBytes ZFS Sun Top 10 ROBOBak managed services hosting cloud grid Datacore Compellent compellant equallogic lefthand networks don't buy storage stop buying storage itguardian cherub networks Arkeia Network Backup appliance Data Recovery Backup Health IT Healthcare IT Digital Hospital Allscripts Patient Data electronic health record P4P rules and the HITECH Act PayerView Rankings practice management tools $44,000 in Medicare or $66,000 in Medicaid from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act eClinicalWorks, Allscripts, NextGen, GE Centricity, and Meditech, free, arra
AHIMA "Security and Privacy of EMR top Priority" - October 7, 2009
Orlando Florida -- With security and privacy of patient information paramount as the government and healthcare industry work to transform the system, the American Health Information Management Association is calling for national standards to protect patient information, says Brian McCarthy CEO of Sencilo HealthIT Solutions.
AHIMA's leaders on Monday released a Health Information Bill of Rights, a seven-point list they say is a model for protecting patient data. The document, unveiled at the 53,000-member group's 81st annual convention in Grapevine, Texas, was crafted by a blue ribbon panel and approved by the AHIMA board of directors.
Wendy Mangin, the group's immediate past president, led the panel of healthcare information management professionals. She said neither the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act nor HIPAA rules provide consumers with adequate protection.
Linda Kloss, CEO of AHIMA, said the group has not proposed legislation, but these principles could spur stricter healthcare data security laws.
According to Vera Rulon, president of AHIMA's board of directors, the principles address the protection of consumer health information from three basic standpoints: appropriate access, optimal accuracy and the highest standards of privacy and security for everyone.
As AHIMA leaders see it, privacy is not just for celebrities like George Clooney and Britney Spears.
"More often than not, those who fall prey to misappropriated, misused, lost or inaccurate health information are regular citizens like you or me who fall victim to greed, desperation, inattention, inappropriate access, inadequate security or any of a number of preventable circumstances," Rulon said. "We believe it is time for the health information profession – we who know better, care deeply and believe more can be done – to do more."
The Health Information Bill of Rights' seven protections was made necessary by "repeated abuses of access, accuracy, privacy and security of the most basic rights of individuals whose trust has been betrayed and dignity compromised," said Rulon.
In calling for a national privacy standard, Mangin said: "If your health records move seamlessly over state lines in service to your care and wellness, then it only makes sense that the rules governing the privacy of those records should enjoy the same portability and the consumer the same protection as a consequence."
AHIMA plans to keep its momentum building through Health Information and Technology Week, scheduled for Nov. 1-7, when it will offer a free wall poster for healthcare organizations to display in waiting areas and a certificate that states their pledge to uphold the seven protections in the Health Information Bill of Rights.
Why wait to get started? Schedule an assessment by calling 1-407-265-6293 or go to www.sencilo.com/healthcare
Why Sencilo HealthIT Solutions
When it comes to your healthcare computing needs, Sencilo HealthIT Solutions's main objective is to provide a turnkey solution that can essentially sustain itself. When you choose Sencilo HealthIT Solutions, you don't just gain a vendor who provides you with technology. You get a business partner who walks with you through every step of the process
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions eHealthcare Architecture: More than technology
With Sencilo HealthIT Solutions eHealthcare Architecture, you can leverage the same productivity tools and technology resources that have transformed business. And you get a full portfolio of services too. By working with Sencilo HealthIT Solutions, you can get:
A dedicated customer team
A website customized for your institution
A full portfolio of robust solutions
Easy setup, implementation and maintenance
Simple ordering and delivery
Technology training
Flexible financing options
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions Professional Services makes it easy
In addition to providing high-quality technology at a low cost, Sencilo HealthIT Solutions Professional Services can help you plan your healthcare computing from the ground up. By working with you from the initial construction phases, we can help you save time and money—and lead to a truly customized solution.
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions Professional Services offers complete services that include:
Design
Procurement
Installation
Training
Maintenance
Support
About Us
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions is a Florida-based integrator specializing in EMR EHR Cost Cutting storage, security and managed services solutions. Sencilo delivers a comprehensive portfolio of products from best-of-breed hardware and software from multiple manufacturers including VMware, Dell Fujitsu Data Domain, EMC, Hitachi, Symantec, HDS, IBM, Commvault, Xiotech and HP. Its technical expertise is known throughout the storage and security industry. Clients include leading corporations, major financial institutions, top universities, government facilities, as well as small to medium size businesses. Sencilo's professional services include consulting, integration, project management, storage virtualization installation, maintenance and knowledge transfer.
Sencilo has offices throughout Florida including: Jacksonville, Daytona Beach, Tampa, St. Petersburg, Orlando, Hialeah, St. Augustine, Gainesville, Ocala, Palm Coast, Clearwater, Kissimmee, Lakeland, Maitland and Cape Canaveral Green Simpana Offerings Projects: BC DR planning Replication De-Dup De-Dupe iSCSI SAN NAS VMware Security EMC NetApp HP IBM Quantum Compliance VTL Data Domain vs Gartner Magic Quadrant Quadrent LTO Backup Exc Pure Disk NetBackup Networker TSM Commvault BakBone D2D D2D2T compare cloud data deduplication thin provisioning DXi Global Compression DDX virtual tape library Data Reduction SEPATON FALCON compare Celerra CLARiiON Equallogic Sencilo HealthIT Solutions NS20 NS40 CX4 CX3-20 CX3-40 CX3-80 FAS2050 FAS3050 Xiotech Nexsan Avamar DLD3 1500 D3 Storwiz storage compression data Ocarina Networks A-SIS compare Sepaton infopro BlueArc OnStor Microsoft Unified Storage data protection StorageX Brocade FAQ SSD Solid state disk SANmelody FalconStor tier zero Xiotech ISE nx4 ax4 greenBytes ZFS Sun Top 10 ROBOBak managed services hosting cloud grid Datacore Compellent compellant equallogic lefthand networks don't buy storage stop buying storage itguardian cherub networks Arkeia Network Backup appliance Data Recovery Backup Health IT Healthcare IT Digital Hospital Allscripts Patient Data electronic health record P4P rules and the HITECH Act PayerView Rankings practice management tools $44,000 in Medicare or $66,000 in Medicaid from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, arra, free
EHealthcare Architecture from Sencilo HealthIT Solutions - October 7, 2009
Orlando Florida -- The U.S. Healthcare system has top-notch doctors and hospitals, excellent medical technology and cutting-edge research facilities. And yet, the actual delivery of patient care is often inefficient and outdated. Today's caregivers are often forced to make diagnoses and treatment decisions without adequate patient information or knowledge of the most up-to-date clinical protocols. In fact, while there are pockets of advanced technologies, the industry as a whole remains paper-based, isolated and disconnected.
At Sencilo HealthIT Solutions, we're committed to helping you deliver the best care possible. By connecting your organization to the latest technology and cost-saving strategies, we can help to improve efficiencies and the quality of care across your entire healthcare operation.
The technology to improve patient care
Here at Sencilo HealthIT Solutions, we understand that transforming your hospital system to a 21st century hospital is no easy task. Fortunately, we can help. From assessments to hardware, software to services, Sencilo HealthIT Solutions has the technology solutions you need for your healthcare organization.
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions eHealthcare Architecture offers a complete technology framework that focuses on the three areas of healthcare computing that matter most:
Access to information when and where needed
Information management and availability
Operational effectiveness and cost control
With the Sencilo HealthIT Solutions eHealthcare Architecture, you get reliable, affordable technology and services you can trust from Sencilo HealthIT Solutions — plus a single point of contact for your IT infrastructure. Most importantly, through our professional services, you get the technical know-how for developing customized solutions built around your needs. Get more information by visiting the Sencilo HealthIT Solutions eHealthcare website.
Information Access
Today's healthcare organizations are awash in high-quality data. Every day, hundreds of thousands of patients interact with doctors, nurses, hospitals, health clinics and pharmacies. Imagine if access to this critical data was always at the caregivers' fingertips. With Sencilo HealthIT Solutions eHealthcare Architecture, it can be. From admissions to ER to radiology, Sencilo HealthIT Solutions technologies can enable care providers to have access to critical patient information when and where they need it most.
30% — Average percent of visits during which patient charts cannot be found.By improving access to critical health data via better technology, physicians and care providers can spend more time actually caring for patients.
Helping integrate every aspect of care delivery
With consistent and timely access to patient data, physicians can make better decisions that could help increase patient safety and, ultimately, save lives. Systems such as electronic medical records (EMR) systems and picture archiving and communications systems (PACS) can help in this quest to provide anytime, anywhere access to information. These advanced technologies can help:
Save valuable time
Prevent medical administrative errors
Provide doctors with up-to-date patient histories — even if there are multiple doctors in multiple
Offset the expenses of traditional X-ray film
Put clinical information and best practices in physicians' hands when and where they need it
Learn more about improving patient care with PACS solutions from Sencilo HealthIT Solutions and reducing prescription errors with EMR systems.
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions puts critical patient data right at your fingertips
With Sencilo HealthIT Solutions eHealthcare Architecture solutions, you can provide access to real-time patient data, exactly where and when it's needed. We can help you make collaboration easy and secure by integrating clinical information systems and mobile technology. Our integrated point of care* solutions feature:
Durable, reliable mobile solutions — including Sencilo HealthIT Solutions laptops and tablet pcs, mobile carts and handhelds — that let care providers capture and access data virtually anywhere, anytime.
High-performance Sencilo HealthIT Solutions Precision workstations that can support critical applications, such as digital imaging and archiving
Productivity-enhancing scanners, printers and software built to perform well in demanding clinical environments
Extranet and intranet portal solutions for improved collaboration and productivity
Comprehensive IT infrastructure assessments to help determine what solutions and services are right for your needs
Relationships and certifications with key HIS, RIS and digital imaging vendors to help ensure compatibility and seamless integration
Ongoing support services to help maintain performance and security of your systems
Ultimately, these solutions can help care providers achieve fast and accurate diagnoses and treatments to deliver a high quality of care and help enhance patient outcomes.
Information Availability
The vast majority of data generated by the healthcare community — information that could lead to a better understanding of treatment options, adverse drug effects and outcomes — is often lost within disparate systems. Plus, many hospitals still have important records stored in paper files, which can compromise security and prevent easy access.Sencilo HealthIT Solutions can help store and manage your critical data, everything from patient health records to billing information.
1/3 — Amount of the $1.8 trillion annual U.S. healthcare budget spent on duplicative or inappropriate procedures.1By increasing access to critical health records via a reliable information infrastructure, preventable errors can be reduced.
Strengthening your information backbone
By ensuring the availability of critical information, healthcare providers can potentially reduce the number of preventable errors, and thus, improve patient safety. A study shows that nearly 195,000 people died as a result of potentially avoidable medical errors in 2002.2This is one of the many reasons why Sencilo HealthIT Solutions wants to help bring 21st century information management into the healthcare community.
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions eHealthcare Architecture can help you strengthen your IT infrastructure and simplify operations across your organization. With our high-performance server and storage solutions, you can efficiently store, manage and secure critical patient health records and administrative data. And since our solutions are reliable, scalable and highly available, you can meet your data needs for today — and tomorrow — without cutting into your bottom line. Our portfolio features:
Highly available, scalable Sencilo HealthIT Solutions servers and Sencilo HealthIT Solutions storage and security solutions that grow with your business
Data center and environmental assessments to help your organization optimize standards based server and storage technologies
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions OpenManager Systems Management tools for deployment, monitoring and automated hardware change management
Server and storage consolidation services to increase utilization of your hardware purchases
Ongoing support services to help keep your systems available and running at peak performance
Creating a secure information network helps you to effectively manage critical patient data, ensuring its availability at the point of care.
By using open standards for healthcare records and systems, the industry can get on the way to national interoperability. The ultimate goal: To ensure the availability of critical patient data at the point of care*. This aligns perfectly with the federal government's vision of a National Health Information Infrastructure (NHII).
Cost Control
The business of healthcare is in critical condition. Hospitals nationwide are losing money, and for this reason, are reluctant to make technology investments — even if they could pay off in the long term. At the same time, there's the added pressure of rising healthcare costs and an aging population. By helping you deploy affordable, reliable technology, Sencilo HealthIT Solutions can help lower your IT costs and improve your overall operational efficiency.
4.04% — The average operating margin for the nation's hospitals, a 20% decline since 2003.1 By adopting IT best practices and standardizing technology across your operation, you can lower spending and focus on the delivery of care.
Driving down costs, while improving patient care
By deploying IT best practices, you can help reduce operating costs and invest more in the delivery of patient care. Partnering with a technology provider who understands the unique needs and challenges of the healthcare industry can allow you to improve efficiency throughout your organization. Sencilo HealthIT Solutions eHealthcare Architecture utilizes the power of the Sencilo HealthIT Solutions Direct Model to deliver affordable, reliable IT solutions that feature:
Build-to-order Sencilo HealthIT Solutions systems that can simplify procurement and deployment processes and lower costs
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions Managed Services for desktop lifecycle management from acquisition to disposal
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions Financial Services with flexible financing options that fit your capital and expense budget requirements
Web-based and classroom training and certification so your organization can get the most out of your technology investments
IT asset management assessments that help ensure enterprise solutions specific to your needs
Excellent service and support for continued productivity and technical assistance
By achieving your IT efficiency and service-level goals, we can help lower your organization's total cost of ownership (TCO). You can get a single point of contact for all your technology needs. And you can rely upon our continuous process improvements. It all adds up to the ideal way to achieve better quality clinical and administrative outcomes.
Why wait to get started? Schedule an assessment by calling 1-407-265-6293 or go to www.sencilo.com/healthIT
Why Sencilo HealthIT Solutions
When it comes to your healthcare computing needs, Sencilo HealthIT Solutions's main objective is to provide a turnkey solution that can essentially sustain itself. When you choose Sencilo HealthIT Solutions, you don't just gain a vendor who provides you with technology. You get a business partner who walks with you through every step of the process
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions eHealthcare Architecture: More than technology
With Sencilo HealthIT Solutions eHealthcare Architecture, you can leverage the same productivity tools and technology resources that have transformed business. And you get a full portfolio of services too. By working with Sencilo HealthIT Solutions, you can get:
A dedicated customer team
A website customized for your institution
A full portfolio of robust solutions
Easy setup, implementation and maintenance
Simple ordering and delivery
Technology training
Flexible financing options
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions Professional Services makes it easy
In addition to providing high-quality technology at a low cost, Sencilo HealthIT Solutions Professional Services can help you plan your healthcare computing from the ground up. By working with you from the initial construction phases, we can help you save time and money—and lead to a truly customized solution.
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions Professional Services offers complete services that include:
Design
Procurement
Installation
Training
Maintenance
Support
About Us
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions is a Florida-based integrator specializing in EMR EHR Cost Cutting storage, security and managed services solutions. Sencilo delivers a comprehensive portfolio of products from best-of-breed hardware and software from multiple manufacturers including VMware, Dell Fujitsu Data Domain, EMC, Hitachi, Symantec, HDS, IBM, Commvault, Xiotech and HP. Its technical expertise is known throughout the storage and security industry. Clients include leading corporations, major financial institutions, top universities, government facilities, as well as small to medium size businesses. Sencilo's professional services include consulting, integration, project management, storage virtualization installation, maintenance and knowledge transfer.
Sencilo has offices throughout Florida including: Jacksonville, Daytona Beach, Tampa, St. Petersburg, Orlando, Hialeah, St. Augustine, Gainesville, Ocala, Palm Coast, Clearwater, Kissimmee, Lakeland, Maitland and Cape Canaveral Green Simpana Offerings Projects: BC DR planning Replication De-Dup De-Dupe iSCSI SAN NAS VMware Security EMC NetApp HP IBM Quantum Compliance VTL Data Domain vs Gartner Magic Quadrant Quadrent LTO Backup Exc Pure Disk NetBackup Networker TSM Commvault BakBone D2D D2D2T compare cloud data deduplication thin provisioning DXi Global Compression DDX virtual tape library Data Reduction SEPATON FALCON compare Celerra CLARiiON Equallogic Sencilo HealthIT Solutions NS20 NS40 CX4 CX3-20 CX3-40 CX3-80 FAS2050 FAS3050 Xiotech Nexsan Avamar DLD3 1500 D3 Storwiz storage compression data Ocarina Networks A-SIS compare Sepaton infopro BlueArc OnStor Microsoft Unified Storage data protection StorageX Brocade FAQ SSD Solid state disk SANmelody FalconStor tier zero Xiotech ISE nx4 ax4 greenBytes ZFS Sun Top 10 ROBOBak managed services hosting cloud grid Datacore Compellent compellant equallogic lefthand networks don't buy storage stop buying storage itguardian cherub networks Arkeia Network Backup appliance Data Recovery Backup Health IT Healthcare IT Digital Hospital Allscripts Patient Data electronic health record P4P rules and the HITECH Act PayerView Rankings practice management tools $44,000 in Medicare or $66,000 in Medicaid from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act , arra, free
Health System CIOs Shifting Priorities - October 7, 2009
Orlando Florida -- For hospital and health system CIOs, crafting a budget that will meet future needs is now more difficult than ever. In large part, this is due to a confluence of factors that makes any certainty illusive. Among those elements are: the combination of increasing uninsured ED visits and decreasing elective procedures; the transitions to ICD-10 and HIPAA-5010; the movement to healthcare reform that will likely involve a shift to value-based purchasing under Medicare; and the lack of clarity around HITECH reimbursement as meaningful use and certification comes into focus, says Brian J. McCarthy, CEO of Sencilo HealthIT Solutions.
Then there is the constant swirl of developments in the healthcare IT vendor market, not to mention the ever-shifting dynamics of local healthcare market competition. With all those puzzle pieces in the mix, no CIO could be faulted for feeling a bit panicked, says McCarthy.
Figuring out how to optimally spend IT dollars in the next few years is a challenging prospect. And that is precisely why many CIO leaders are counting on the same operating principles and strategies that have kept them grounded in the past to serve them during these uncertain times.
“My take on all this is that these elements are simply accelerating a focus on what we should be doing all along,” says Baylor Health System Senior Vice President and CIO David Muntz. “So to me, there's no big surprise in this; if there's a difficulty at all, it's the order in which we might be required to do things.”
In fact, says Muntz, who helps lead a 14-hospital, 3,000-bed system based in Dallas, “I actually think this is a good-news situation. If I had to focus on the negative, I would say that if you can't rush to get the carrots, you should at least try to avoid the sticks.” By that, he is referring to the penalties that will be incurred for failing to use an EHR in a “meaningful” way as required under HITECH. The need to look at the broader picture in healthcare, Muntz adds, means scanning the horizon for the emergence of such important concepts as the medical home and accountable care groups, and putting the IT foundations in place to support concepts such as those that purchasers, payers, and policy-makers are moving toward.
So, Muntz says, “My advice is to take a deep breath and to continue doing the things you were already doing, if they were the right things.”
John Glaser, Ph.D., senior vice president and CIO of the eight-hospital Partners HealthCare system in Boston, advises caution during this deep recession. “At the end of the day, organizations operate on a philosophy of either conservatism or aggressiveness. Fundamentally, I would tell people this is not a bad time at all to be fiscally conservative. The markets are recovering, but it's still tight out there; so you have to be conservative with capital and operating expenses; that's just smart and prudent. On the other hand,” he says, “There could be opportunities here, and these things happen when they happen. If we see opportunities, I wouldn't be the turtle who pulls in his limbs and hides.”
For Lac Tran, senior vice president and CIO at the three-hospital Rush University Medical Center in central Chicago, that translates into an acute awareness of the need to carefully prioritize, and in some cases, re-prioritize IT projects, while still adhering to core strategic principles. As a result, says Tran, “We're doing a lot of deferring to subsequent years of projects that are of lower priorities. And we're definitely cognizant of areas that touch on regulatory requirements.”
Among those areas are the transitions to ICD-10 and HIPAA 5010. “We have task forces in both of those areas,” Tran notes, adding that he believes ICD-10 will have a far bigger impact on his organization, as it will require all of Rush's coding professionals to be retrained (and to have their retraining documented), as well as requiring its physicians to be trained in the new coding system, says McCarthy of Sencilo HealthIT Solutions.
Fortunately, in other areas, such as preparing to request federal funding under ARRA-HITECH, Rush is well-positioned, Tran notes, as the organization has been live with CPOE for nine years already. “All these things are just helping us to get to where we need to go, faster,” he says.
Cutting a path
Industry experts see an interesting split screen when it comes to budget prioritization at hospitals across the country. Leading organizations have already made progress down the following roads:
The alignment of organization-wide IT spending with the patient safety, care quality, efficiency, and effectiveness goals of the organization;
The advent of IT as a facilitator to process improvement and a support for organizational cultural change;
Intensive clinical IT development, especially with regard to EMR and CPOE implementation;
The rise of the CIO as a thought leader and change agent within the organization;
The evolution of the strategic budgeting process as an affirmation of change agency.
Asked what cutting-edge organizations are doing right, Erica Drazen, Sc.D., managing partner in the Waltham, Mass.-based Emerging Practices/HealthCare Sector group at Falls Church, Va.-based CSC, says, “The biggest differentiator” has been in leadership over clinical IS projects. CIOs, executives, and clinician leaders in pioneering organizations “have long recognized that CPOE and eMAR and broadening patient access to medical records aren't IT projects; they're clinical process change projects.” That realization, Drazen says, is what compels a hospital or health system forward.
In fact, she says, “The top clinician leaders in your organization don't only need to be at the table setting priorities; they need to be pushing you, as the CIO, and saying things like, ‘We need to make patient care safer and improve the continuity of care, and can you help us with that, Mr. or Ms. CIO?’”
That positioning is very different, Drazen says, from what has developed in many hospital organizations around the country, where CIOs and their teams have been vested with the ownership of clinical IT development. Clinicians, she insists, must be the owners of clinical IT strategy. “Would a CFO allow IT people to tell them how to structure their revenue cycle program?” she asks. “Of course not.”
Greater CIO visibility
What many CIOs are finding is that governance and relationship-building are assuming more importance than ever before, bringing them to a more strategic place in their own evolution, says McCarthy.
“These technologies touch so many aspects of the organization now that your strategic and financial alignment of technology becomes really significant,” says Tim Zoph, vice president and CIO of the 873-bed Northwestern Memorial Hospital in downtown Chicago. “As a result, you now have a broader audience, and a bigger portfolio of activity you're working through,” Zoph says. “We're entering into an era of knowledge and value, and the technology facilitating transformational changes within any organization is so important that this becomes about survival strategies.”
And so, says Zoph, what once could be neatly categorized as a budgeting process has become something much broader in scope. In fact, he says, the whole budgeting process in times like these, particularly for the big-ticket clinical IT implementations, becomes a governance challenge for CIOs. “And a part of governance is not telling people what to do, but instead, building confidence and answering questions squarely, and making sure the institution understands both the promise and limitations of technology.” Indeed, he says, “In times of uncertainty, clarity of leadership is even more important. This is a time where people really earn their leadership edge.”
Alignment equals progress
For those organizations whose existing strategy naturally aligns with today's trends, a clear advantage has emerged. “Our core vision is to be a low-cost, high-quality patient care organization, and though we're not going to buy every piece of technology out there, one of our explicit strategic goals is to harness technology,” says George Conklin, senior vice president and CIO of Christus Health, a 44-hospital Catholic hospital system based in Dallas.
And, since the focus at Christus is “around providing integrated information across the care continuum,” the health system has already been live with EMR and other core clinical information systems for a few years now, Conklin reports. What's more, he and his colleagues are busy working on a broad project to standardize medical vocabulary, with an eye towards standardizing care across the system.
In the end, many CIOs agree that getting the details of strategic budgeting right during this time of change and uncertainty means looking at the big picture and aligning organizational IT goals and resources with overall goals and industry trends.
“The good news these days,” says Baylor's Muntz “is that there's no longer anyone in a hospital organization who isn't thinking about information technology. So as CIO, you essentially become the great listener. It's your challenge to figure out how to coordinate all the disparate conversations and strands going on in your organization,” and to help lead action around those currents of discussion. Even with all the current fiscal and operational challenges involved, he concludes, that's a good place for CIOs to be right now.
Everyone knows it's coming, yet many say this one will be rocky. Though HHS earlier this year pushed back the transition date to Oct. 1, 2013, for CIOs, 2013 is still right around the corner. “ICD-10 is probably the thing that makes me the most nervous, simply because of the massive amount of change that will be required,” says David Muntz, senior vice president and CIO at the 14-hospital Baylor Health System based in Dallas. “We've begun to plan, and one of the things we'll be talking about is how we do that without stepping all over ourselves in terms of having to do extensive remediation with regard to the EMR,” Muntz adds. That's because, with ICD-10, “You're essentially asking someone who speaks just a few words to dramatically enlarge their vocabulary.”
HIPAA 5010
Like the transition to ICD-10, this is already a known quantity; yet some believe it could be more challenging than generally conceived. The transition to HIPAA 5010, as mandated by the federal Administration Simplification Act, must take place by Jan. 1, 2012. And though it might not be as challenging as the transition to ICD-10, it will nonetheless compel software upgrades and process changes within hospitals, along with training of all affected personnel, experts note. As a result, says Lac Tran, senior vice president and CIO at the three-hospital Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, “We have task forces in both of those areas.” Tran urges all CIOs to begin working with their IT team to immediately to effect a smooth transition to the new standard.
The economic recession
How long will the current recession last? Healthcare has historically lagged behind other industries, both in terms of when a downturn takes place and when a recovery gets underway. Says John Glaser, Ph.D., senior vice president and CIO at Partners HealthCare in Boston, “My advice is to be cautious, but don't hibernate and go back into a cave.” Glaser says he believes the recession is naturally compelling CIOs and their teams to take a second look at the array of software and hardware they have in their organizations. However, he says that it will be vitally important not to cut back on spending in ways that could hamper the ability to address the reimbursement, policy, and regulatory demands purchasers and payers are making of healthcare providers right now.
The ARRA-HITECH funding hurdle
One thing is clear: CIOs must be moving ahead now to make those preparations, even as key pieces of information around meaningful use requirements remain far from final. “In order to take advantage of the policy changes in the Recovery Act, you need to be proactive, and to make choices based on imperfect information,” says Tim Zoph, vice president and CIO of Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago. And that definitely means “aligning your institution and your physicians to take advantage of that situation.”
Healthcare reform
For many, the concepts of federal healthcare and reimbursement reform appear to be identical and fused; and indeed, one major element in healthcare reform is the prospect of major changes in reimbursement patterns under Medicare. But, industry and policy experts say, regardless of whether comprehensive health insurance reform is passed, reimbursement reform is inevitable. And, given some of the ideas being discussed in Washington, experts say it's important to consider concepts such as accountable care groups, pay for performance, and the medical home could soon become payment realities. Now is the time, says Baylor's Muntz, to lay the IT foundation for the implementation of these concepts. Most CIOs concur that the implementation of highly functional core clinical information systems, of strong data warehouses, and of report-writing and data-publishing capabilities will be vital says McCarthy, CEO of Sencilo HealthIT Solutions.
Continually prioritize and re-prioritize projects.
Be conservative with capital and operating expenses, but not to the detriment of long-term strategic initiatives.
Devote task forces to specific industry mandates, such as the move to ICD-10 or HIPAA 5010.
Take seriously industry trends toward improved patient safety and quality, while becoming more accountable and transparent; weaving those trends into strategic plans and budgets.
For more information please call (407) 265-6293 or visit us at: http://www.sencilo.com/healthIT
Why Sencilo HealthIT Solutions
When it comes to your healthcare computing needs, Sencilo HealthIT Solutions's main objective is to provide a turnkey solution that can essentially sustain itself. When you choose Sencilo HealthIT Solutions, you don't just gain a vendor who provides you with technology. You get a business partner who walks with you through every step of the process
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions eHealthcare Architecture: More than technology
With Sencilo HealthIT Solutions eHealthcare Architecture, you can leverage the same productivity tools and technology resources that have transformed business. And you get a full portfolio of services too. By working with Sencilo HealthIT Solutions, you can get:
A dedicated customer team
A website customized for your institution
A full portfolio of robust solutions
Easy setup, implementation and maintenance
Simple ordering and delivery
Technology training
Flexible financing options
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions Professional Services makes it easy
In addition to providing high-quality technology at a low cost, Sencilo HealthIT Solutions Professional Services can help you plan your healthcare computing from the ground up. By working with you from the initial construction phases, we can help you save time and money—and lead to a truly customized solution.
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions Professional Services offers complete services that include:
Design
Procurement
Installation
Training
Maintenance
Support
About Us
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions is a Florida-based integrator specializing in EMR EHR Cost Cutting storage, security and managed services solutions. Sencilo delivers a comprehensive portfolio of products from best-of-breed hardware and software from multiple manufacturers including VMware, Dell Fujitsu Data Domain, EMC, Hitachi, Symantec, HDS, IBM, Commvault, Xiotech and HP. Its technical expertise is known throughout the storage and security industry. Clients include leading corporations, major financial institutions, top universities, government facilities, as well as small to medium size businesses. Sencilo's professional services include consulting, integration, project management, storage virtualization installation, maintenance and knowledge transfer.
Sencilo has offices throughout Florida including: Jacksonville, Daytona Beach, Tampa, St. Petersburg, Orlando, Hialeah, St. Augustine, Gainesville, Ocala, Palm Coast, Clearwater, Kissimmee, Lakeland, Maitland and Cape Canaveral Green Simpana Offerings Projects: BC DR planning Replication De-Dup De-Dupe iSCSI SAN NAS VMware Security EMC NetApp HP IBM Quantum Compliance VTL Data Domain vs Gartner Magic Quadrant Quadrent LTO Backup Exc Pure Disk NetBackup Networker TSM Commvault BakBone D2D D2D2T compare cloud data deduplication thin provisioning DXi Global Compression DDX virtual tape library Data Reduction SEPATON FALCON compare Celerra CLARiiON Equallogic Sencilo HealthIT Solutions NS20 NS40 CX4 CX3-20 CX3-40 CX3-80 FAS2050 FAS3050 Xiotech Nexsan Avamar DLD3 1500 D3 Storwiz storage compression data Ocarina Networks A-SIS compare Sepaton infopro BlueArc OnStor Microsoft Unified Storage data protection StorageX Brocade FAQ SSD Solid state disk SANmelody FalconStor tier zero Xiotech ISE nx4 ax4 greenBytes ZFS Sun Top 10 ROBOBak managed services hosting cloud grid Datacore Compellent compellant equallogic lefthand networks don't buy storage stop buying storage itguardian cherub networks Arkeia Network Backup appliance Data Recovery Backup Health IT Healthcare IT Digital Hospital Allscripts Patient Data electronic health record P4P rules and the HITECH Act PayerView Rankings practice management tools $44,000 in Medicare or $66,000 in Medicaid from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
Cost Cutting Tips for Small Business - Part II - September 23, 2009
Orlando Florida == Midsize companies should look at creating cost-cutting teams, pay more attention to reducing maintenance support costs and reduce their networking spending, said Terrence Cosgrove, senior research analyst at Gartner, during a breakout session titled "System Management on an IT Budget" at Everything Channel's Midsize Enterprise Summit in Miami.
Reducing enterprise costs is the second most important business expectation for midsize companies this year, according to Gartner's 2009 survey of 1,500 midsize CIOs.
In a sign of how the economy has changed CIOs' priorities, reducing enterprise costs finished as only the ninth most important expectation in last year's survey, according to Gartner.
Meanwhile, reducing the cost of IT was the third most important CIO strategy in 2009 and it didn't even finish in the top 10 last year.
"A CIO thinks IT has to do everything better, faster, cheaper and become more aligned with the business. The concept of doing more with less has been the anthem of IT operations for the last 10 to 15 years. What's unique now is that fiscal constraints are so much greater and pressure from business is so much stronger. It puts you in the position that IT has to change its way of thinking with respect to infrastructure and operations," said Cosgrove, who laid out tips to help IT organizations lower their costs.
The most important business expectation for midsize companies was improving business processes, but was not a focus of Cosgrove's talk.
Cosgrove detailed several ways that midsize companies can contain costs. To start, organizations should create cost-cutting teams that include representation from all major platforms -- PCs, servers, networking, storage, as well as a financially qualified professional, Cosgrove said.
"A finance person will help because sometimes if you reduce costs in one area, you can increase costs somewhere else. We also recommend someone with a legal background, especially for renegotiated contracts," Cosgrove said.
Reducing hardware maintenance costs can save money through a number of means, Cosgrove said. Gartner has found that the cost of hardware maintenance has increased 5.5 percent over the last year, but the providers' ability to meet service-level commitments has decreased 4.5 percent.
"A lot of clients find support cheaper on a time and materials basis than a subscription," Cosgrove said. He cited one example of a midsize company that saved $10,000 per year by discontinuing maintenance on four-year-old switches, scanners and some printers. The company moved from a 24x7 support contract to a 9-to-5 maintenance window, he added.
Next: Networking Ripe With Savings Opportunities Networking, which represents 10 to 30 percent of IT spending, is ripe with cost-cutting opportunities, Cosgrove said.
"Moving from frame relay to an IP-based backbone system like VPN will save a lot of money. One midmarket company cut their WAN [costs] by 30 percent by moving to broadband VPN," he said. "Also, make networking contracts more competitive. One of our clients, a health-care company, cut their phone costs from $45,000 per month to $23,000 per month by opening their renewal to multiple telecom carriers. Even if you have no intention of moving away from your provider, we recommend opening it up to make it more competitive," he said.
Another cost-cutting measure currently employed by many midsize companies is virtualization. Still, Cosgrove points out, most organizations can do more in that area. At last year's MES shows, Gartner ran a survey that found that 64 percent of servers in attendees' IT environments were still physical. There are three issues critical to virtualization success, he said: controlling sprawl (even "VM-sprawl" Cosgrove said), improved ISV licensing and training.
"There's a wide variance around what ISVs will support in a virtual environment. Eventually, ISVs will figure out a way to monetize it to run in a virtual environment, but it's very inconsistent today," Cosgrove said.
CIOs also should understand the total cost of IT support, which can be eye opening, Cosgrove said. For example, it costs between $12 and $20 for a Level 1 call center contact, but moving to a self-service model can reduce that amount to $2 to $10, he said.
"Most organizations are at 65 percent first-contact resolution. We think 75 percent to 80 percent is good. A one percent increase in first-contact resolution represents a 0.64 percent increase in customer satisfaction," Cosgrove said.
Finally, Cosgrove also advised that midsize companies hold off on moving to Office 2007 because Office 14 will be available in the middle of next year. "Office 2003 will still be supported for the next five years. You're in a really good position to see what Office 14 is like," he said. The cost to migrate from Office 2003 to 2007 is between $900 and $1,600 per user, he added.
Most midsize companies also won't see true cost savings by moving to OpenOffice.org or Google Docs because too many users will still need Microsoft Office, he said. "We don't recommend moving to OpenOffice.org unless you're absolutely sure your works don't need Microsoft Office," he said.
For more information please call (407) 265-6293 or visit us at: http://www.sencilo.com
About Us
Sencilo Solutions is a Florida-based integrator specializing in Cost Cutting storage, security and managed services solutions. Sencilo delivers a comprehensive portfolio of products from best-of-breed hardware and software from multiple manufacturers including VMware, Data Domain, EMC, Hitachi, Symantec, HDS, IBM, Commvault, Xiotech and HP. Its technical expertise is known throughout the storage and security industry. Clients include leading corporations, major financial institutions, top universities, government facilities, as well as small to medium size businesses. Sencilo's professional services include consulting, integration, project management, storage virtualization installation, maintenance and knowledge transfer.
Sencilo has offices throughout Florida including: Jacksonville, Daytona Beach, Tampa, St. Petersburg, Orlando, Hialeah, St. Augustine, Gainesville, Ocala, Palm Coast, Clearwater, Kissimmee, Lakeland, Maitland and Cape Canaveral Green Simpana Offerings Projects: BC DR planning Replication De-Dup De-Dupe iSCSI SAN NAS VMware Security EMC NetApp HP IBM Quantum Compliance VTL Data Domain vs Gartner Magic Quadrant Quadrent LTO Backup Exc Pure Disk NetBackup Networker TSM Commvault BakBone D2D D2D2T compare cloud data deduplication thin provisioning DXi Global Compression DDX virtual tape library Data Reduction SEPATON FALCON compare Celerra CLARiiON Equallogic Dell NS20 NS40 CX4 CX3-20 CX3-40 CX3-80 FAS2050 FAS3050 Xiotech Nexsan Avamar DLD3 1500 D3 Storwiz storage compression data Ocarina Networks A-SIS compare Sepaton infopro BlueArc OnStor Microsoft Unified Storage data protection StorageX Brocade FAQ SSD Solid state disk SANmelody FalconStor tier zero Xiotech ISE nx4 ax4 greenBytes ZFS Sun Top 10 ROBOBak managed services hosting cloud grid Datacore Compellent compellant equallogic lefthand networks don't buy storage stop buying storage itguardian cherub networks Arkeia Network Backup appliance Data Recovery Backup Health IT Healthcare IT Digital Hospital Allscripts Quorum's Virtual Optimization System (VOS) delivers a myriad of capabilities for virtualized application management, High availability, dynamic virtual resource management Xen application workload management,application measurement monitoring,quorum appliance,quorum,quorum,high availability solutions,application workload management,real time availability,real time workload management
The Pandemic is here and this is your Business Continuity Planning Guide for the Swine Flu (H1N1) - September 17, 2009
Concerned about the coming flu season and the impact H1N1 will have on the workforce? Here's a fear-free roundup of articles, columns and podcasts to help you keep improving your preparedness plan.
With flu season fast approaching in the Western Hemisphere, medical and government officials are bracing for what is expected to be a nasty wave of sickness, panic and workflow disruptions throughout the public and private sector. The reason for this year's extra sense of urgency is H1N1, commonly known as Swine Flu.
The World Health Organization has declared it a pandemic strain, and though cases have mostly been mild, concern abounds that a nastier strain of virus will emerge this fall and winter, leading to the scenarios described above. Among those who are deep in planning for what may come is Richard Thomas, director of education at InfraGard and a member of the Austin, Texas Community Emergency Response Team.
"We have had a number of briefings from the Texas Department of State Health Services on the topic and the main preventative measure is to stay healthy," he said. To keep people healthy, he said, the key is to plaster every office and school building with guidelines written and spoken on the basics: Getting plenty of sleep to keep the immune system sturdy, getting the annual flu vaccine and staying home if sick so as not to infect others.
"It is a difficult task to manage public fear," he added. "The general feeling I get from our health officials is that they do not consider this a major threat under general conditions. However, it is a balancing act between not showing enough concern that people become lax about preventative measures, and showing too much concern, which can cause hysteria. I think they have it well in hand."
For more information please call (407) 265-6293 or visit us at: http://www.sencilo.com/continuity-disaster.php
About Us
Sencilo Solutions is a Florida-based integrator specializing in Cost Cutting storage, security and managed services solutions. Sencilo delivers a comprehensive portfolio of products from best-of-breed hardware and software from multiple manufacturers including VMware, Data Domain, EMC, Hitachi, Symantec, HDS, IBM, Commvault, Xiotech and HP. Its technical expertise is known throughout the storage and security industry. Clients include leading corporations, major financial institutions, top universities, government facilities, as well as small to medium size businesses. Sencilo's professional services include consulting, integration, project management, storage virtualization installation, maintenance and knowledge transfer.
Sencilo has offices throughout Florida including: Jacksonville, Daytona Beach, Tampa, St. Petersburg, Orlando, Hialeah, St. Augustine, Gainesville, Ocala, Palm Coast, Clearwater, Kissimmee, Lakeland, Maitland and Cape Canaveral Green Simpana Offerings Projects: BC DR planning Replication De-Dup De-Dupe iSCSI SAN NAS VMware Security EMC NetApp HP IBM Quantum Compliance VTL Data Domain vs Gartner Magic Quadrant Quadrent LTO Backup Exc Pure Disk NetBackup Networker TSM Commvault BakBone D2D D2D2T compare cloud data deduplication thin provisioning DXi Global Compression DDX virtual tape library Data Reduction SEPATON FALCON compare Celerra CLARiiON Equallogic Dell NS20 NS40 CX4 CX3-20 CX3-40 CX3-80 FAS2050 FAS3050 Xiotech Nexsan Avamar DLD3 1500 D3 Storwiz storage compression data Ocarina Networks A-SIS compare Sepaton infopro BlueArc OnStor Microsoft Unified Storage data protection StorageX Brocade FAQ SSD Solid state disk SANmelody FalconStor tier zero Xiotech ISE nx4 ax4 greenBytes ZFS Sun Top 10 ROBOBak managed services hosting cloud grid Datacore Compellent compellant equallogic lefthand networks don't buy storage stop buying storage itguardian cherub networks Arkeia Network Backup appliance Data Recovery Backup Health IT Healthcare IT Digital Hospital Allscripts Quorum's Virtual Optimization System (VOS) delivers a myriad of capabilities for virtualized application management, High availability, dynamic virtual resource management Xen application workload management,application measurement monitoring,quorum appliance,quorum,quorum,high availability solutions,application workload management,real time availability,real time workload management Quorum's Virtual Optimization System (VOS) delivers a myriad of capabilities for virtualized application management, High availability, dynamic virtual resource management Xen application workload management,application measurement monitoring,quorum appliance,quorum,quorum,high availability solutions,application workload management,real time availability,real time workload management
Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery in a Tornado, Lightning or Hurricane Zone - September 17, 2009
Weather creates risks that differ in key ways from those in a hurricane area. Cancer Treatment Centers of America showcases a study BC/DR plan for dealing with tornadoes
Orlando Florida -- Business continuity planners in tornado alley have much in common with those in hurricane areas -- but also key differences. Tornadoes have smaller funnels, but can appear in groups, may feature dramatically higher winds, and can strike with far less warning than a major hurricane typically provides. Good BC/DR planning must take those differences into account in everything from employee and facility safety to network uptime.
Cancer Treatment Centers of America literally has lives on the line if something goes wrong with their business continuity plans. That's why Chad Eckes, chief information officer of the Schaumburg, Illinois-headquartered organization, believes there is no room for complacency. Keeping things running smoothly 100 percent of the time is always the goal.
"I think you will find most CIOs will say 100 percent up time is impossible," he said "But why would you ever target anything less than 100 percent? We have always operated well over five-nines in terms of up time. But if I were satisfied, those potential moments of down time could be the moments a patient is being impacted."
The mission of Cancer Treatment Centers of America, according to Eckes, is to offer healing and hope to complex cancer patients. It's a goal that everyone with the organization is mindful of, regardless of their job, he said.
"Everyone at CTCA draws a line everyday in how their job touches the patient."
CTCA has hospitals in Arizona, Florida, Illinois, Oklahoma and Pennsylvania. But CTCA's primary operations in Schaumburg are in tornado country, which means keeping an eye on the weather and having a business continuity plan that is resilient in the event of a damaging storm, particularly in the spring, when tornadoes are most common in this part of the U.S. The Midwest and the Central Plains of North America see more tornadoes each year than any other part of the world.
"We had a key decision to make a few years ago about whether we run centralized data centers or decentralized. Going back to that core principal of the mother standard, we made the decision by bringing it back to patients and its impact on patients."
Eckes and CTCA decided centralization was the best option so the same information was available to all employees, regardless of the facility they are working in. From a BC/DR standpoint, Eckes said a centralized data center with a backup facility was the better way to go in order to avoid any down time in the event of an emergency that takes one of the data centers offline for any period of time.
"We have migrated to all digital. There is no paper backup. We have our bedside monitors directly connected into our electronic health records. Our phone is all VOIP. Paging is integrated into the phone system. If any of these core systems go down, it could be a patient's life. You can't call a code blue if your phone system is down. It's that critical that everyone takes this that seriously."
According to a survey conducted earlier this year by AT&T, the most common scenario for rolling out a BC/DR plan was extreme weather (Read more about the results in Survey: BC/DR Plans Factor in Mobile, Social Networking). About 25 percent of companies said weather forced their plan to be put in action. More than half of companies in Houston and Miami/Orlando/Tampa, regions that have been hit hard with hurricanes in recent years, were likely to have invoked their business continuity plan.
But unlike hurricanes, which are a type of storm system that often originate over tropical waters and come with much advance warning, tornadoes are isolated storms that form with less warning for weather officials. They form in moist, warm air in advance of a cold front and are often seen in their hallmark funnel-cloud shape; a violent, rotating column of air which is in contact with both the surface of the earth and a cloud. Tornadoes can stretch more than a mile across and stay on a destructive ground path for many miles, wiping out structures and picking up objects and debris along the way.
With tornado patterns in mind, CTCA built their two data centers in greater Chicagoland so that they sit 59 miles apart and in a pattern in which the likelihood of tornado hitting both of them is nearly impossible, said Eckes. The locations were chosen based on information CTCA got from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) about weather patterns. The decision was based on historical events and what the likelihood would be of natural disaster hitting both facilities. Eckes said CTCA made sure the facilities, which have identical data, were sitting in a north-south arrangement and more than 30 miles apart to ensure one facility would always be operating. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), tornadoes typically move from southwest to northeast.
"The first main design from a BCP standpoint was to have complete redundancy in our data. Anytime there is any production data written to the primary it is immediately mirrored over to our DR data center," said Eckes. "Literally, we are up to date in our second center within 15 seconds. That is, with a complete copy of all clinical systems."
The CTCA data has five layers of redundancy, from mirroring of data with an EMC SAN, to disk backups, to snap shots of patient data that are taken every four hours and stored on local servers within each hospital, says Brian Mccarthy CEO of Sencilo Solutions, in Lake Mary Florida.
"If our redundancy fails in terms of our network back to our two data centers, we need to have that data in the hands of our clinicians," said Eckes. "So they can go to this centralized server in their hospital, print out the pdf or copy it to a PC and still have all the information they need, like allergies, medications, treatment clinical pathway. Everything is there for them to care for their patients."
Structurally, considerations were also made due to the possibility of tornadoes hitting the data centers. While hurricanes can produce high winds that cause damage, preparations in hurricane zones often consider flooding as the most damaging potential factor. However, a tornado does most of its damage with extremely high winds; tornadoes can generate violent wind speeds in excess of 250 miles per hour. (For comparison, a category 5 hurricane may hit land with sustained winds of 155 miles per hour; Hurricane Camille at 190 mph was one of the most intense in history.)
Tornados are measured by the Fujita scale; a system which assigns levels of destructive power based on post-storm assessments. This scale runs from an F-0 storm, which causes little to no measurable damage, all the way to an F-5 which can completely eliminate all structures in its path. While most tornadoes rank lower than F-3, according to FEMA, they can still cause damage to a facility, particularly on windows and roofs.
"One of the important things for us was ensuring there were no exterior windows facing into the data center," said Eckes.
But Eckes said structural modifications weren't enough to give him peace of mind, so CTCA built their recovery center in an old bank vault with the specific risk of a tornado in mind. The vault is in a brick building with a data center that is surrounded by a perimeter of 18 inches of poured concrete that is reinforced with rebar.
"The likelihood of a tornado being able to hit, even at F4 level, is near impossible," said Eckes. "This is about as much protection as we are going to get without having an underground bunker."
According to FEMA, the best defense for personnel that may be in the immediate destructive path of a tornado is protection in a basement, cellar or other underground storm shelter. If there is none, staff should be advised to go to the lowest floor and into a small center room such as a bathroom or closet, under a stairwell, or in an interior hallway with no windows.
Geoff Craighead, vice president of High-Rise and Real Estate Services at Securitas Security Services USA and author of "High-Rise Security and Fire Life Safety," advises clients he works with in tornado zones to consider all physical elements of a building when created a business continuity plan.
"Creating a business continuity and disaster recovery plan requires a comprehensive evaluation of all physical factors that during a crisis may impact key business processes," he said.
Tornado warnings, when they are possible, are often broadcast on both radio and television, which of course can be monitored in the average security or network operations center. Craighead said if an organization is warned there is possibility of a tornado in the near future, preparations could include securing or moving outdoor objects such as trash containers, planters, signs, furniture, and vehicles that may blow away or cause damage to people or property. Craighead also recommends pruning tree branches that may cause damage to the building if time permits. Occupants should clear all objects from desks and working areas and all exposed paperwork should be stored in closed cabinets and other containers, he said. Valuable equipment and documents should be moved from outer offices to interior rooms.
"Building management, engineering or security staff, or floor wardens may conduct walkthroughs of the building to ensure that appropriate precautions are being undertaken," said Craighead.
For more information please call (407) 265-6293 or visit us at: http://www.sencilo.com/continuity-disaster.php
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Sencilo Solutions is a Florida-based integrator specializing in Cost Cutting storage, security and managed services solutions. Sencilo delivers a comprehensive portfolio of products from best-of-breed hardware and software from multiple manufacturers including VMware, Data Domain, EMC, Hitachi, Symantec, HDS, IBM, Commvault, Xiotech and HP. Its technical expertise is known throughout the storage and security industry. Clients include leading corporations, major financial institutions, top universities, government facilities, as well as small to medium size businesses. Sencilo's professional services include consulting, integration, project management, storage virtualization installation, maintenance and knowledge transfer.
Sencilo has offices throughout Florida including: Jacksonville, Daytona Beach, Tampa, St. Petersburg, Orlando, Hialeah, St. Augustine, Gainesville, Ocala, Palm Coast, Clearwater, Kissimmee, Lakeland, Maitland and Cape Canaveral Green Simpana Offerings Projects: BC DR planning Replication De-Dup De-Dupe iSCSI SAN NAS VMware Security EMC NetApp HP IBM Quantum Compliance VTL Data Domain vs Gartner Magic Quadrant Quadrent LTO Backup Exc Pure Disk NetBackup Networker TSM Commvault BakBone D2D D2D2T compare cloud data deduplication thin provisioning DXi Global Compression DDX virtual tape library Data Reduction SEPATON FALCON compare Celerra CLARiiON Equallogic Dell NS20 NS40 CX4 CX3-20 CX3-40 CX3-80 FAS2050 FAS3050 Xiotech Nexsan Avamar DLD3 1500 D3 Storwiz storage compression data Ocarina Networks A-SIS compare Sepaton infopro BlueArc OnStor Microsoft Unified Storage data protection StorageX Brocade FAQ SSD Solid state disk SANmelody FalconStor tier zero Xiotech ISE nx4 ax4 greenBytes ZFS Sun Top 10 ROBOBak managed services hosting cloud grid Datacore Compellent compellant equallogic lefthand networks don't buy storage stop buying storage itguardian cherub networks Arkeia Network Backup appliance Data Recovery Backup Health IT Healthcare IT Digital Hospital Allscripts Quorum's Virtual Optimization System (VOS) delivers a myriad of capabilities for virtualized application management, High availability, dynamic virtual resource management Xen application workload management,application measurement monitoring,quorum appliance,quorum,quorum,high availability solutions,application workload management,real time availability,real time workload management
Top 10 Facts about Data Archiving - September 17, 2009
There are many ideas about what a consolidated or unified data archive should look like, and preconceptions can clash when you're considering creating such a solution. However, there are three key elements to any data archiving system:
Archiving software, from companies like Autonomy Cherub Networks, EMC Corp., CA and Point Software., manages the location, movement and disposition of data.
Storage hardware, from companies such as MDI, HDS, EMC, Hewlett-Packard (HP) Co., and Nexsan, receives the data to be preserved and specialized platforms handle encryption, protection, retrieval and destruction of data.
Management software, from vendors like Abrevity Inc., Attenex Corp., Autonomy Corp., Clearwell Systems Inc., i365 (a Seagate Company) and Kazeon Systems Inc., provides services like search, classification and e-discovery capability.
But most applications don't fall into these neat classifications. As they develop their products and the market matures, vendors continually add features like e-discovery support, search and data movement, blurring the lines among storage, archiving and management. The variety of elements and overlapping features add complexity to the once-simple world of archiving.
Navigating the archiving market starts with an evaluation of your company's objectives for its archive. If the objective is to serve business demands like in-house e-discovery or retention to comply with regulations, it makes sense to let data management features drive product selection. But if IT needs a system to control data growth or enable lifecycle management, higher-level search and e-discovery features are less relevant. Regardless of the initial object, it's likely the archive will eventually serve both business and IT demands.
Not all archives will use all 3 archiving elements presented here. Some organizations send data to an archiving platform directly from a custom application, while others will use conventional storage systems rather than investing in a specialized device as their archive target.
Brian McCarthy CEO of Sencilo Solutions and nationally known speaker on data archiving, suggests a strategy is needed before expanding the archive environment. "Larger organizations, especially in regulated industries, are looking for federated search and management across data types, but smaller, less-regulated companies might be able to keep their data in silos," he said. "The key is the level of overarching management needed."
For more information please call (407) 265-6293 or visit us at: http://www.sencilo.com/c2c.php
About Us
Sencilo Solutions is a Florida-based integrator specializing in Cost Cutting storage, security and managed services solutions. Sencilo delivers a comprehensive portfolio of products from best-of-breed hardware and software from multiple manufacturers including VMware, Data Domain, EMC, Hitachi, Symantec, HDS, IBM, Commvault, Xiotech and HP. Its technical expertise is known throughout the storage and security industry. Clients include leading corporations, major financial institutions, top universities, government facilities, as well as small to medium size businesses. Sencilo's professional services include consulting, integration, project management, storage virtualization installation, maintenance and knowledge transfer.
Sencilo has offices throughout Florida including: Jacksonville, Daytona Beach, Tampa, St. Petersburg, Orlando, Hialeah, St. Augustine, Gainesville, Ocala, Palm Coast, Clearwater, Kissimmee, Lakeland, Maitland and Cape Canaveral Green Simpana Offerings Projects: BC DR planning Replication De-Dup De-Dupe iSCSI SAN NAS VMware Security EMC NetApp HP IBM Quantum Compliance VTL Data Domain vs Gartner Magic Quadrant Quadrent LTO Backup Exc Pure Disk NetBackup Networker TSM Commvault BakBone D2D D2D2T compare cloud data deduplication thin provisioning DXi Global Compression DDX virtual tape library Data Reduction SEPATON FALCON compare Celerra CLARiiON Equallogic Dell NS20 NS40 CX4 CX3-20 CX3-40 CX3-80 FAS2050 FAS3050 Xiotech Nexsan Avamar DLD3 1500 D3 Storwiz storage compression data Ocarina Networks A-SIS compare Sepaton infopro BlueArc OnStor Microsoft Unified Storage data protection StorageX Brocade FAQ SSD Solid state disk SANmelody FalconStor tier zero Xiotech ISE nx4 ax4 greenBytes ZFS Sun Top 10 ROBOBak managed services hosting cloud grid Datacore Compellent compellant equallogic lefthand networks don't buy storage stop buying storage itguardian cherub networks Arkeia Network Backup appliance Data Recovery Backup Health IT Healthcare IT Digital Hospital Allscripts Quorum's Virtual Optimization System (VOS) delivers a myriad of capabilities for virtualized application management, High availability, dynamic virtual resource management Xen application workload management,application measurement monitoring,quorum appliance,quorum,quorum,high availability solutions,application workload management,real time availability,real time workload management
