PROFILE

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PROFILE

• Sweet Spot
• Hospitals with 150-400 in use beds
• Compliment Meditech and CPSI
• Avoid hospitals that are members of larger
  networks
• Budgets
• Flat
• Easiest to justify as operations
• Fiscal calendar year

2
CONFIGURATION

• Environment
• X-ray, MRI machines
• Kronos time clocks
• Cisco routers and switches
• Cabletron hubs
• DEC-UNIX workstations
• Oracle and MS_SQL for database
• NT/W2k workstations
• Microsoft Exchange for email
• Frame Relay

Configuration Backbone router connecting
branches (clinic, physical therapy, labs,
etc.) Migrating away form AS-400s
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PAIN

• Maintaining availability of critical systems
  serving the ER, lab, radiology and other
  departments
• Ensuring reliability of diagnostics machines as
  they commit records
• Maximizing response time when accessing clinical
  repositories
• No visibility into the source of slow service
  issues
• Processing payroll when time clocks fail

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HIPAAS ROLE IN IT

• The Health Insurance Portability and
  Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA)
• Key provision Administrative Simplifications
• Equipment vendors addressing critical privacy
  issues
• Overall, only 10 applies to IT
• Security compliance became a play in late 2003