This white paper shows how information availability solutions ensure the availability and accessibility of data and applications, regardless of planned or unplanned interruptions. They transform costly unproductive downtime into value producing uptime and help IT managers solve the challenges of automated patient care and compliance.
The Power of
Information Availability:
What Every Healthcare
IT Manager Needs
to Know
How to Solve Downtime Challenges to Patient Care, Operationsand HIPAA Compliance
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Overview
Public and private healthcare and life sciences enterprises, like all organi-zations, must manage costs and revenues. But unlike other organizations,your responsibilities extend much further than ensuring your own fiscal healthand profitability. For hospitals, clinics, nursing homes and life sciencescompanies, the physical health and safety of your patients is paramount.
Many market forces are driving changes in healthcare and life sciencesautomation. Clinical patient record (CPR) applications now play a huge rolein supporting and delivering clinical care and its processes. Any interruptionin your IT service levels today can compromise your ability to deliver on yourmission and can negatively impact patient confidence in your brand.
Additionally, for healthcare providers in the U.S., IT availability is now morethan just a technical issue. It is also the law. The Health Insurance Portabilityand Accountability Act (HIPAA) requires that all healthcare providers takesteps to ensure the security and availability of all medical records. The lawapplies not just to hospitals and doctors, but also to insurance companies,diagnostic labs and any entity that handles personal medical information.
Are you ready to take on the burden of ensuring ever-higher service levelavailability and a comprehensive approach to compliance? This white paperoutlines how an information availability solution-can ensure the uptime andaccessibility of data and applications, regardless of planned or unplannedinterruptions. They can transform costly unproductive downtime into valueproducing uptime and help you deal with the IT challenges behind innovativepatient care and compliance.
Bottom Line: The ability to deliver and assure optimum availability to clinicalsystems and data will be critical to the success of your organization. VisionSolutions high availability software solutions can solve those accessibilityissues and support your long-term automation strategies.
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How to Ensure Uptime for Highly Automated HealthcareApplications
No doubt your organization has multiple independent systems supporting computer-basedpatient record (CPR) systems, such as patient databases, indices and scheduling,registration/admission, and discharge and transfer systems, as well as pharmacy, radiologyand transcription systems. As automation plays a deeper role in these applications, theybecome larger and more interdependent. Should any of these core applications need to berecovered, you may very well need to restore other systems as well to avoid problems, suchas duplicate pharmacy medication orders or duplicate scheduling of procedures-a processthat could take several hours.
Meanwhile, other errors or issues will accumulate as the application interacts with others.Restoring the integrity of the overall environment will become more extensive, more complexand much more time consuming.
Bottom line: More and more, healthcare executives and clinicians will place a premium on ITdepartments that can ensure continuously available systems, and that can avoid downtime,its costs and recovery time.
Understand the Cost of Downtime
To fully understand the value of an information availability solution, your C-level executives willneed to understand the consequences and effects of downtime-in terms of costs, lostproductivity and heightened risk to patients and reputation.
What Does Information Availability Mean? Having access to data, applications, and systemswhen you need them. Any interruption or interference (downtime) that makes information orapplications inaccessible or inaccurate adds costs, complexity, risks and delays.
Even the most highly effective, information-driven organization inevitably suffers some form ofdowntime. While some unplanned downtime results from weather or other disaster, mosthappens because of hardware or application failures, human errors and security violations.
Surprisingly though, studies show thatplanned downtime caused by routineda... [download for more]
