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Doctors starting a new practice often are overwhelmed by the many decisions and impossible regulations surrounding them before opening their doors.  Our partnership can handle all the computers, communications, and bandwidth needed through our  Code Blue Medworks  Project . The main goal is to work with doctors and staff to get their practice started in the right direction and then to maintain the highest state of availability and usability.

Unfortunately, most healthcare organizations in healthcare do not have  the necessary  technical infrastructure that is fully prepared to handle the needs of recording  and setting  up health records securely and safely.  We do not expect to make physicians all experts in the IT world but we feel strongly that it is necessary to share with physicians and office managers some IT basics. Without some basic knowledge, you will likely be led down a path that was not made for you and could easily end up spending valuable time and money with an end result that fails to meet expectations.  in a place that you had not intended.

The typical “as is” state of infrastructure in healthcare includes:  spotty wireless coverage, networking with inadequate bandwidth, under capacity data centers, inconsistent or nonexistent data backup, and a severe lack of redundancy. Implementing health records on top of the typical infrastructure can lead to significant issues and failures with a direct impact on patient care.

This situation becomes especially concerning when you consider the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA). ARRA provides substantial financial incentives to help organizations implement healthcare information technology (HIT) systems, especially EHR. The goal of (ARRA)course is to prompt healthcare organizations to aggressively begin implementing Health Record solutions. Spotty Internet down time can cause some less than perfect patient coverage. Wireless infrastructures are full of network holes and loss of data. Phones lines that do not carry any type of business quality and security.Recommended mitigation:  Complete a full wireless survey of the facility which covers every location.  The most commonly overlooked locations include stairwells, elevators, and cafeterias.

Recommended mitigation:  Work with  us to model the needed network bandwidth and then double it to account for growth as well as margin for error.

Network Equipment Redundancy – No matter how much is spent to purchase the the highest quality equipment, how old the equipment is, or how great the warranty is, equipment will invariably fail at one point or another. The challenge for IT is to ensure that the end user retains access to the Health care records despite the even rare occurrence of an equipment failure.

Mirror all data real time to a second “hot” data center running a duplicate instance of the production environment for the sole purpose of disaster recovery.  We recommend a “Return to Operation” target of 2 hours for a complete data center outage.

Complete data backups to a disk library.  We recommend 7 days of backup on disk. Complete data backups to store data offsite.  We recommend 6 months of backup on disk. Complete T1 Coverage of all phone lines and secure digital Internet connections.

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