East Hartford, CT (PRWEB) March 06, 2012
Kelser Corporation, a leading provider of technology solutions to the insurance and financial services sectors, today announced that it is taking the lead in redefining the modern data center with versatile new server products from Intel. Kelser will be among Intels primary integration allies that will introduce the Intel
Arlington Heights, IL (PRWEB) July 11, 2012
Northwest Community Healthcare (NCH) in Arlington Heights is among an elite group of tech-savvy hospitals and healthcare systems to be recognized as forward thinkers within the health information technology field. In a national survey, the results of which were published in the July issue of Hospitals & Health Networks magazine, NCH has been listed as one of the nations Most Wired hospitals and healthcare systems in the country for 2012.
According to Health Cares Most Wired 2012 Survey, the nations Most Wired hospitals are leveraging the adoption and use of health information technology to improve performance in a number of areas. At NCH, new and innovative health IT solutions have automated and integrated clinical, patient safety and administrative functions not only within the Arlington Heights-based hospital, but also at NCHs outpatient facilities and the NCH Medical Group offices located throughout Chicagos northwest suburbs.
Its an accomplishment and an honor to be recognized nationally because weve been working diligently to establish a clinical technology architecture that incorporates population health and wellness management tools, said George Morris, Vice President of Information Technology at NCH, who recognizes there is a shift in healthcare that holds organizations like NCH accountable for both the immediate and long-term well-being of its patients.
NCH also remains focused on health information technologies that optimize patient care processes, streamline communication among providers and protect patient data. Key projects for NCH include computerized provider order entry that enables physicians to submit orders electronically; an electronic closed loop medication process that focuses on patient safety and quality of care, and a hospital-wide electronic Bed Board system that monitors bed availability and patient census, while assisting with the coordination of transporters and environmental services to optimize staff efficiencies and patient resources.
In addition, NCH recently launched a fully-customized mobile application (app) that allows individuals to better manage their urgent and day-to-day healthcare needs. Called MyNCH, this multi-functional free mobile app provides instant access to NCHs network of medical group physicians, hospital services, emergency care, immediate care and specialty centers throughout Chicagos northwest suburbs.
NCH is among the first healthcare providers in Illinois and one of only 13 comparable hospitals in the country to provide its patients with a robust mobile app. The mobile app is NCHs first step to delivering personal and relevant health information to the community in a secure format thats easy to use and convenient to access.
For more information about Northwest Community Healthcare and to learn more about NCHs mobile app, visit http://www.nch.org/app. The 2012 Most Wired Survey is conducted in cooperation with McKesson Corporation, the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME), and the American Hospital Association. For more information about the Most Wired list for 2012, visit http://www.hhnmag.com.
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San Jose, CA (PRWEB) August 14, 2012
Follow us on LinkedIn In this age of cut throat competition, where companies are increasingly compelled to extend their reach beyond geographic boundaries, the need to establish communications with a wide range of internal and external business partners, including customers, suppliers, distributors and employees becomes critical. This brings to the fore, Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), which as a technology is fast replacing traditional PSTN based voice communication services, that too at significantly lesser costs. Capable of converting voice signals into digital data packets, which are then transmitted over the IP Networks such as Internet or private networks, VoIP comes as a highly cost efficient solution for delivering voice communications for businesses, and therefore is growing in tremendous popularity across the globe. A special case of providing VoIP capability for businesses, Business VoIP services is fast growing in popularity as well as in commercial implementations in the enterprise segment.
As a key initial investment, adoption of Business VoIP infrastructure comes as an important strategic decision for enterprises, and therefore needs critical evaluation of requirement, including the actual need for change in enterprise telephony strategy, availability of economic and technical resources for making the change, and consideration of key benefits that the new technology may provide to the company. The ability of Business VoIP services to provide exceptional cost benefits with regard to voice communications is the key rationale for businesses moving from traditional PSTN to VoIP infrastructure. Business VoIP allows enterprises to use existing Internet infrastructure as means to place free phone calls, thereby driving significant cost benefits. By allowing both voice and data traffic to be transmitted over a single network, VoIP saves considerable infrastructure costs for businesses, which would have otherwise been spent on establishing separate voice and data networks. Given that price of VoIP extensions are also significantly lower than traditional PBX and key systems, also make VoIP services more economically viable than traditional PSTN based telecommunications.
The upcoming years are forecast to witness strong demand for mobile VoIP services. Increasing number of mobile workforce, and constant need for such employees to stay in touch with corporate headquarters, and carry out functions such as making sales transactions, passing sales or purchase orders, and reporting productivity even while away from the office, is driving strong business case for Mobile Business VoIP services. Enabling traveling executives, telecommuters, and call-center agents within an organization to use softphones for accessing features of corporate phones while working at home or while on the go, mobile VoIP services are increasingly being adopted by businesses, thereby driving the overall Business VoIP market. Hardware price reductions of IP telephony systems will turn out to be a good incentive for consumers to invest in next-generation systems and converged networks, thus encouraging faster migration to Business VoIP services.
Another major factor driving business prospects in the Business VoIP Services market is the ability of the technology in enhancing productivity. Business VoIP features and capabilities such as desk calling, automated attendant, extension management, follow me/gather me, outlook integration, remote office, unified mutter mail, voicemail, call record, conference calling, and video conference, allow companies to leverage the power of seamless and uninterrupted connectivity among employees and with external business partners, to realize overall productivity enhancements within organizations. The latest VoIP applications and business systems such a unified communications and collaboration ensures collaborated team work, irrespective of the location of team members, thereby positively influencing employee morale and overall productivity.
Mushrooming of small and medium businesses (SMBs), especially in the developing countries, and the subsequent need for voice communications among these enterprises is leading to increased adoption of VoIP services in this consumer segment. Hosted Business VoIP services, which eliminate the need for capital investments, especially on VoIP systems and provide cost effective scalability especially makes Business VoIP practically viable for SMBs, thereby increasing its adoption among this customer cluster. As an increased number of SMBs begin to recognize the advantages of IP telephony and as older telephony platforms reach the end of their lifecycle, Business VoIP adoption is expected to continue gaining momentum.
As stated by the new market research report on Business VoIP Services, Europe represents the largest regional market, accounting for a majority share in global market revenues. Asia-Pacific represents the fastest growing market with annual revenues from the region waxing at a CAGR of about 17.3% over the analysis period. Booming economies, robust growth in the enterprise sector, international business expansions, increase in enterprise mobility, especially in emerging markets such as China and India, are fingered as key factors driving growth in the region. Managed IP PBX Services is the fastest growing market segment with growth projected to wax at a CAGR of 12.2% over the analysis period. Value and cost savings are poised to drive growth in the Hosted VoIP and Unified Communications market.
Major players in the global marketplace include 8×8 Inc., AAPT, AT&T Inc., BroadView Networks Inc., British Telecommunications Plc, Cable & Wireless Worldwide Plc, Cbeyond Inc., CenturyLink, Inc., Comcast Corporation, Megapath Inc., Verizon Business, INET Telecoms Ltd., (Voipfone), Level 3 Communications Inc., M5 Networks Inc., Masergy Communications, Inc., Net2Phone Inc., New Global Telecom Inc., NTT Communications Corporation, Orange, XO Communications, LLC, among others.
The research report titled Business VoIP Services: A Global Strategic Business Report announced by Global Industry Analysts, Inc., provides a comprehensive review of market trends, issues, drivers, company profiles, mergers, acquisitions and other strategic industry activities. The report provides market estimates and projections for Business VoIP Services (in US$ million) for major geographic markets including the US, Canada, Japan, Europe (France, Germany, Italy, UK, Spain, Russia and Rest of Europe), Asia-Pacific, Latin America and Rest of World. Key segments analyzed for the global market include managed IP PBX Services; Hosted VoIP and Unified Communications; and IP Connectivity Services.
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Portland, OR (PRWEB) June 22, 2012
Among health insurance entities, including health plans, medical management companies and third-party administrators (TPAs), a continuing objective is to reduce costs, improve quality, and meet rigorous accreditation and regulatory compliance standards. This challenge is especially true when it comes to reviewing the medical necessity of service requests, including pre-authorizations as well as member and provider appeals.
AllMed Healthcare Managements recent webinar on physician review business process outsourcing (BPO) provided an excellent example of how payer organizations are increasingly turning to specialty BPO organizations like IROs and delegating medical decision making functions that used to be done by internal medical staff. In presenting this example of BPO innovation, AllMed cited several important reasons why health plans are moving in this direction. In particular, physician review business process outsourcing allows health plans to reduce costs, scale their resources up and down with variable volumes, and allocate their medical directors to higher value-added tasks.
Health plan medical directors are often called upon to review pre-authorization and appeals requests, which reduces the time they can devote to the oversight of quality, compliance and clinical operations functions, said Andrew G. Rowe, CEO of AllMed. Given the compensation levels of these professionals, it makes more sense to outsource routine medical review tasks and redeploy medical directors where their higher-level expertise is of most value to the organization.
Given this shift in thinking about how best to utilize internal medical staff, leading IROs have evolved and can now function as full service business process outsourcing partners for a health plan as it relates to medical decision making. High-performance IROs have developed an integrated portfolio of services that are delivered through web-based technology platforms. The IRO can now reduce and/or balance workloads inside the health plan, lowering costs and improving productivity in ways not possible before, Rowe added.
One such plan that recognizes this is Cambia Health Solutions, which operates BlueCross and/or BlueShield health plans in four western states, serving nearly 2.5 million members. The Regence affiliated companies have fully integrated their IRO (AllMed) into their clinical decision-making operations as a BPO partner. It relies on the company for outsourcing of all physician review functions, including first-level pre-authorizations and specialty-matched appeals.
An outsourcing partner like AllMed is a really good fit for us, said Csaba Mera, MD, Executive Medical Director of Regence BlueCross BlueShield of Oregon. It has a large panel of physicians available for specialty-matched case reviews through a secure web portal, which improves our turnaround time on pre-authorizations and appeals. This gives our medical directors more freedom to focus on higher-level tasks such as medical policy development, provider services support and implementation of required regulatory programs.
But choosing the right IRO partner requires solid due-diligence, Mera would say, confirming that the partner needs to bring together all the cross-functional disciplines and expertise in physician recruiting, credentialing, training, quality assurance and compliance. Further, the full-service IRO should offer a solution that is highly optimized and integrated into the health plans clinical decision-making workflows. In the end, such a solution must be faster, better, and cheaper than what a health plan can develop and maintain on its own, he added.
Rowe outlined the technology capabilities and platform a payer should look for in looking for an IRO to partner with. These include:
Seattle, WA (PRWEB) July 31, 2012
TERIS, a leading provider of eDiscovery and related litigation support and information governance solutions to corporations and law firms across the US and internationally, announced today that it recently completed a Type II Service Organization Control (SOC) 2 (or “SOC 2″) examination relevant to security, availability, confidentiality, and privacy. As a result, TERIS is now one of the first eDiscovery litigation support service providers to receive such a report and certification.
The SOC 2 examination, conducted by an independent auditing firm, formally evaluated the design and operating effectiveness of TERIS processes, procedures, and controls for compliance with the criteria set forth in the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants Trust Services Principles and Criteria. This examination demonstrates that TERIS is compliant with the relevant criteria and that its clients are being served by an SOC 2 standard controlled facility.
The examination’s completion has also provided TERIS with valuable insight into the people and procedures responsible for successful data center controls.
By meeting this comprehensive and rigorous standard, TERIS is able to provide our clients with an even greater degree of confidence that their critical data and information is secure in our facilities, said Kip Hauser, TERIS Chief Operating Officer.
Earlier this year, the SOC Type II reports replaced SAS 70 Type II audits as the benchmark compliance report for organizations impacted by regulations such as HIPAA, PCI, and SOX. The new standards required TERIS to complete and submit a written assessment of the operating effectiveness and suitability of its controls, which was analyzed and validated in person by the independent auditors.
The 2011 SSAE 16 SOC 2 Type II examination covers the entire organization and its information technology infrastructure environment and client-facing systems including: data center operations, database administration, storage management, server administration, support, system backup and disaster recovery processes, as well as network operations, system monitoring tools and processes, system security (both logical and physical), and common support processes applicable to all lines of business and customers of the company.
All of TERIS operate under the same standards and follow the established SSAE 16 SOC 2 guidelines, best practices, policies, and procedures to maintain compliance and certification.
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Founded in 1996, TERIS provides legal support and sophisticated eDiscovery and Information Governance solutions to corporate legal teams and law firms across the U.S. and internationally. TERIS staff of over 275 was named one of the top 20 eDiscovery service providers in 2008 by industry researcher Socha-Gelbmann. The company has offices in Seattle, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, San Diego, Phoenix, Austin, Houston, and Dallas. To learn more about TERIS, visit TERIS.com or follow the company on Twitter at Twitter.com/DiscoverTERIS or Facebook at Facebook.com/TERIS.
Torrance, CA (PRWEB) October 07, 2012
Total Corporate Solutions, has recently launched a new initiative aimed at increasing our customers knowledge and potential utilization of cloud services. Part of that initiative is to partner with leading cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services.
As a new consulting partner of Amazon Web Service (AWS), Total Corporate Solutions provides cloud consulting, migration, backup and disaster recovery services, and infrastructure development and management over AWS. Total Corporate Solutions already began to specialize in the Aerospace and Healthcare industries, and is quickly expanding into many other verticals.
Many companies are already utilizing the low-cost, secure, and efficient means to deliver their computing power giving them an edge on their competition. Please contact Total Corporate Solutions today to learn more about cloud computing, and if it could be a fit for your company.
About Total Corporate Solutions
Total Corporate Solutions is a Minority Owned Business who serves businesses throughout Los Angeles and the surrounding areas. Total Corporate Solutions is based in Torrance, CA.
Total Corporate Solutions maintains an experienced staff of professional salesman and technicians, each capable of executing customer project needs from concept to completion. Total Corporate Solutions’ experience and training allows management to identify the most cost effective route to meet project completion, on schedule and within budget. Our goal is to provide adequate Solutions in the most cost-effective manner through the application of experience, knowledge, innovation and technology. http://hipaa.totalcorporatesolutions.com/cloud-consulting-partner/
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In 2006, Amazon Web Services (AWS) began offering IT infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services — now commonly known as cloud computing. One of the key benefits of cloud computing is the opportunity to replace up-front capital infrastructure expenses with low variable costs that scale with your business. With the Cloud, businesses no longer need to plan for and procure servers and other IT infrastructure weeks or months in advance. Instead, they can instantly spin up hundreds or thousands of servers in minutes and deliver results faster.
Today, Amazon Web Services provides a highly reliable, scalable, low-cost infrastructure platform in the cloud that powers hundreds of thousands of businesses in 190 countries around the world. Amazon Web Services has data center locations in the U.S., Europe, Brazil, Singapore, and Japan. http://aws.amazon.com
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