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SharePoint Hosting for Health Care Companies

May 16th, 2011
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By Laurie Head
AIS Network Vice President, Marketing Communications

If you are running a business in the health care industry, your primary goal is to provide world-class patient care and support.  The last thing you need is to be weighed down by redundant tasks that result in administrative waste, lost revenue and patient dissatisfaction.

AIS Network’s hosted SharePoint 2010 enables you to implement a system-wide, collaborative solution for your health care organization, no matter your role, without feeling overwhelmed by the task. You get a world-class Service Level Agreement that offers the security, availability and accessibility you need to meet all of the IT challenges and changes you face.

AISN believes that better patient health begins with better information.

Many IT environments have been overwhelmed by the myriad of changes sweeping the health care system. Their impact has resulted in inaccessible data, more infrastructure complexity and less innovation. Add to that the increased compliance issues facing hospitals, physicians, insurers, pharmaceutical companies and other health care organizations, and it’s critical to implement more efficient, intelligent, and thorough methods of document management and information sharing related to patient care.

Our hosted SharePoint 2010 enables you to implement a system-wide, collaborative solution for your health care organization, no matter your role, without feeling overwhelmed by the task. You get a world-class Service Level Agreement that offers the security, availability and accessibility you need to meet all of the IT challenges and changes you face.

By offering your staff better and more rapid access to business and clinical processes, patient histories and other life-saving information—when and where it’s needed—you are empowering them to provide better care and services. And, by connecting patients to better information, they can make better choices and take a more active role in improving their own health.

SharePoint 2010 gives you tools to adapt your organization so you can meet the variety of information-driven demands you face—all in far less time and with far less paper.

AISN’s hosted SharePoint 2010 gives you a return on investment in several ways:

  • Improve health care performance for patients through more effective, efficient, and searchable digital communications.
  • Implement Business Process Management (BPM) to automate processes and save time, allowing health care workers more time with patients.
  • Centralize patient data, keep records, and track incidents for thorough case management—especially important for managing information sharing among numerous shifts, facilities and health care professionals.
  • Transform record-keeping processes related to hospital documents, policies and human resources activities.
  • Increase efficiency through online forms and automated workflows, reducing time spent on documentation.
  • Add SharePoint to your toolkit for managing HIPAA compliance efforts.

Why SharePoint Hosted by AIS Network?

Increasingly, health care companies are turning to AISN’s cloud solutions and dedicated server solutions for help in adapting to the new business and regulatory environment they now face.  Being a successful supplier takes much more than having technical expertise. We know that in order to deliver the solutions you need, we must understand the challenges of the evolving health care industry.

AISN offers a high-touch, personalized approach to solving the unique IT, seemingly insurmountable, challenges each company faces with experts who routinely develop custom hosted solutions. With a best practices approach to working with you, and our understanding of the organizational and compliance issues you face, we can be your partner in deploying a customized, hosted SharePoint solution. See what our clients are saying about us.

AISN is 100% SLA-guaranteed and SAS 70 Type II-certified to maintain the highest level of security. Additionally, with SharePoint 2010, we customize client solutions to address critical compliance issues involving HIPAA, PCI Compliance, Sarbanes-Oxley and other industry-specific regulations.

Give us a call or email us and let us help you architect the right hosted SharePoint solution for your health care organization.

 

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IT Literacy for CPAs Will Enable Client Conversations About the Cloud and Collaboration

July 23rd, 2010
Posted by: Jay Atkinson

As a CPA and someone whose hosting company recently underwent a SAS 70 Type II audit, I found this year’s American Institute of Certified Public Accountants Top Technology Initiatives Survey, which forecasts key IT issues in the year ahead, highly interesting. The CPAs surveyed say they believe data security will continue to be the most pressing concern for their clients and employers over the year.

The June study was the first such Top Technology Initiatives Survey to ask AICPA members to rank a list of questions heard most often from audit committees, chief financial officers and chief information officers. According to the press release about the survey, the top 10 most frequently asked questions are:

  1. Are we ensuring that our data and technology resources are protected against hacking, viruses, or other compromises?
  2. Are we considering or implementing organizational security precautions even though we haven’t had a data breach or loss?
  3. Are our current internal controls and IT governance policies and procedures effective?
  4. Are we receiving the most relevant and current information from our reporting functions (business intelligence, dashboards, etc.) or are there areas for improvement?
  5. Have we implemented sound, appropriate privacy policies and procedures in place within the organization and for our customers?
  6. Are we appropriately considering the IT risks associated with the organization in an initial planning of any audit or attest engagement?
  7. Are we capturing the appropriate control objectives during the initial planning of any audit or attest engagement to address the IT risks associated with the organization?
  8. Should we refresh our core and financial accounting software to leverage technology efficiencies every few years?
  9. Can our data remain safe if we utilize cloud computing, or Software as a Service (SaaS) services?
  10. Can we deliver on our service and product promises to our customers if we utilize cloud computing services?

Notably, Cloud Computing/Software as a Service (SaaS) appeared in two questions, reflecting both growing interest in Web-based technology solutions for business and concerns about the new risks that they may introduce. CPAs are providing vendor due diligence for their clients to ensure appropriate controls are in place in SaaS applications and confidential customer information is being protected.

Principally, the survey makes clear that CPAs need to be literate about information technology in order to collaborate effectively with clients and their IT partners. Managed hosting companies can help in that regard by providing clear product and educational information and by ensuring that their hosting company has a SAS 70 Type II audit, an internationally recognized auditing standard developed by the AICPA.

CPAs, take note! At AIS Network, we are constantly working to revise and add new content for our Web site—content that is robust enough for IT professionals but also simple enough for the layman to understand.

In the next few weeks, we’re planning on adding some educational FAQs that, I am hopeful, will help inform CPAs and others who are asking some of these very important questions. Further, we have upgraded this month to SAS 70 Type II-certification.

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