Healthcare IT Solutions Ensure Uptime, Security and Stability

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Healthcare IT Solutions Ensure Uptime Security
and Stability
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Healthcare IT Solutions

• A high quality data centers medical and
  healthcare IT solutions offer a secure
  regulatory compliant environment to manage
  critical medical data.
• Downtime is not an option when clinicians need
  access to Electronic Medical Records (EMRs)
  Picture Archiving and Communication Systems
  (PACS) or Telemedicine in order to make life or
  death decisions.
• Your medical and healthcare IT infrastructure
  must be designed to deliver continuous uptime
  solid security reliable connectivity and
  scalability to ensure high quality patient care.
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100 Guaranteed Uptime

• You shouldnt have to worry about your critical
  healthcare IT infrastructure experiencing issues
  or downtime. Thats quality data centers build in
  redundancy and reliability into all data center
  operating systems including critical power and
  cooling infrastructure.
• Additionally a high quality data center will
  provide a 100 Data Center Uptime Service Level
  Agreement (SLA). 
• The SLA covers key elements and service metrics
  like power temperature and network
  availability.
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Ensure Medical Data Security

• The Health Insurance and Portability
  Accountability Act (HIPAA) mandates the
  safeguarding of Protected Health Information
  (PHI).
• Information breaches can result in millions of
  dollars of lost business penalties and fines.
• Compromised security can significantly interfere
  with your ability to care for patients. A top
  priority in all quality data centers is rock
  solid physical and network security.
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Physical Security

• A high quality data centers SAS 70 Type II
  audited processes ensure operational procedures
  security and controls are working effectively to
  safeguard and protect your data and equipment.
• These data centers deliver up to 5 levels of
  physical and electronic systems working 24/7 to
  protect your equipment.
• These systems include around-the-clock monitored
  closed circuit televisions onsite support and
  security teams biometrics security systems
  and/or military-grade key cards and various
  alarms and sensors tied to fire and police
  departments.
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Network Security

• Healthcare IT threats are everywhere.
• Computer viruses hackers human error and
  disaffected employees can be a significant threat
  to mission critical applications and patient
  data.
• A safe and secure healthcare IT network can work
  to enable quality patient care enhance
  productivity increase mobile point of care
  access to information and reduce costs.
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Flexible Scalable Solutions

• Your business requires scalable
  infrastructures to keep pace with changing
  technology needs. 
• A high quality data center enables you to easily
  scale-up with guaranteed space and power.
• Their managed hosting solutions should include a
  number of data storage options cabinets cages
  and private suites.
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Disaster Recovery Preparation

• Healthcare providers must ensure high
  availability and maintain uptime even in the
  event of a disaster.
• High quality data centers can provide hospitals
  physicians and other healthcare providers with
  cost efficient disaster recovery facilities
  systems and infrastructure.
• These data centers can also help healthcare
  organizations in meeting their IT infrastructure
  needs by delivering cost-effective secure
  reliable and scalable data center hosting and
  managed services solutions.
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About the Author

• Michael Duckett is President of CoreLink Data
  Centers a leading provider of data center
  hosting and managed services solutions in
  Chicago Las Vegas Phoenix and Seattle. For more
  information about healthcare IT solutions visit
  http//www.corelink.com/medical-and-healthcare-it-
  solutions.htm today.
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