The Power Of Information Availability: What Every Healthcare IT Manager Needs To Know
Public and private healthcare and life sciences enterprises, like all organisations, must manage costs. But unlike other organisations, your responsibilities extend much further than ensuring your own fiscal health and profitability.
For hospitals, clinics, nursing homes and life sciences companies, the physical health and safety of your patients is paramount. Many market forces are driving changes in healthcare and life sciences automation.
Clinical patient record (CPR) applications now play a huge role in supporting and delivering clinical care and its processes. Any interruption in your IT service levels today can compromise your ability to deliver on your mission and can negatively impact patient confidence in your brand. Additionally, for healthcare providers in the U.S., IT availability is now more than just a technical issue. It is also the law.
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) requires all healthcare providers take steps to ensure the security and availability of all medical records. The law applies 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 level availability and a comprehensive approach to compliance?
An information availability solution can ensure the uptime and accessibility of data and applications, regardless of planned or unplanned interruptions. They can transform costly unproductive downtime into value producing uptime and help you deal with the IT challenges behind innovative patient care and compliance.
The ability to deliver and assure optimum availability to clinical systems and data will be critical to the success of your organisation. High availability software solutions can solve those accessibility issues and support your long-term automation strategies.
Alan Arnold
Alan Arnold is the EVP and CTO for Vision Solutions and is responsible for the global technology, services and support strategy for the business. Alan joined Vision in 2000, and since joining the company, he has served in a variety of positions including EVP of Technologies and President and Chief Operating Officer of worldwide operations. Prior to joining Vision Solutions, Alan was a senior technology executive in the management consulting practice of Ernst & Young. Alan served as the firm’s subject matter expert for IBM technology and e-commerce solutions, and was one of the founders and managers of the Ernst & Young Advanced Development Center (ADC). Prior to E&Y, Alan worked at StorageTek (XL/Datacomp) as the National Director of Technologies, and prior to this, he worked in several other companies in technology and management roles. Alan is recognised as an expert in advanced technologies, business process improvements and managed availability solutions. He has authored or co-authored five books on technology and business topics that have been published worldwide. He has written numerous articles for some of the leading publications in the industry, and has had his work presented to the United States Senate Technology subcommittee and State of California.
Alan Arnold is the EVP and CTO for Vision Solutions and is responsible for the global technology, services and support strategy for the business. Alan joined Vision in 2000, and since joining the company, he has served in a variety of positions including EVP of Technologies and President and Chief Operating Officer of worldwide operations. Prior to joining Vision Solutions, Alan was a senior technology executive in the management consulting practice of Ernst & Young. Alan served as the firm’s subject matter expert for IBM technology and e-commerce solutions, and was one of the founders and managers of the Ernst & Young Advanced Development Center (ADC). Prior to E&Y, Alan worked at StorageTek (XL/Datacomp) as the National Director of Technologies, and prior to this, he worked in several other companies in technology and management roles. Alan is recognised as an expert in advanced technologies, business process improvements and managed availability solutions. He has authored or co-authored five books on technology and business topics that have been published worldwide. He has written numerous articles for some of the leading publications in the industry, and has had his work presented to the United States Senate Technology subcommittee and State of California. ...less info
