MT. PROSPECT, Ill., Aug. 30, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Strong
healthcare information technology adoption rates are fueling
the healthcare industry’s growing reliance on third party data
centers according to a newly released white paper by Chicago data
center and managed
service provider, CoreLink Data Centers, LLC (http://www.corelink.com).
To be successful, healthcare organizations must ensure proper
security, infrastructure, compliance, and availability procedures
are implemented to deliver the reliable access to critical
electronic health information.
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5 Critical Success Factors for Selecting a Healthcare Data
Center” by Nav Ranajee, CoreLink’s Director of Healthcare,
details the top factors
Healthcare Information Technology leaders must consider in
their data center selection planning. For example, security
requirements under the Health Insurance Portability and
Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the financial incentives provided by
the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health
(HITECH) component of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
(ARRA), are prompting healthcare organizations to leverage data
centers to cost effectively meet growing regulatory compliance,
storage and network demands concerning Protected Healthcare
Information (PHI).
Other items discussed in the white paper include the mammoth
networking bandwidth requirements of Electronic Health Records
(EHRs), imaging data, and clinical communications, including
telemedicine across disparate areas and through such wireless
technology as mob
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