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Siemens Healthcare and Louisiana State University at Shreveport are notifying 8,330 patients of a HIPAA breach following a database mishap that resulted in billing and treatment information being mailed to the wrong patients.
Healthcare organizations will need to be more effective, cost efficient and productive in the future to not only survive, but also to maintain positive cash flows, according to Brian Fugere, COO of RemitDATA.
Several organized physician groups are beta testing URAC’s new clinical integration accreditation program standards. The independent standards organization created the new program to serve as a road map for health providers to achieve clinical integration and accountable care. By earning URAC accreditation, providers will demonstrate they are delivering improved patient care and reducing costs.
Bed management software applications have witnessed record growth rates over the past five years and are considered the new hot market for vendors and providers to watch, according to the findings of a new HIMSS Analytics/directory/analytics" target="_blank" class="directory-item-link">Analytics report.
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology is launching the Crowds Care for Cancer: Supporting Survivors Challenge in conjunction with the National Cancer Institute as part of the Investing in Innovation program, also known as i2.
The challenge aims to spur the development of innovative information management tools and applications that help survivors manage their transition from specialty to primary care.
| OTTO® MAX | OTTO® BASIC | |
| Number of backup sets | Unlimited | 1 |
| BACKUP SCHEDULE | ||
| Continuous data protection | Y | Y |
| Daily | Y | Y |
| Weekly | Y | Y |
| Monthly | Y | N |
| Yearly | Y | N |
| Multiple schedules | Y | N |
| ENCRYPTION | ||
| 128-bit/256-bit | Y | Y |
| Configuration by end-user | Y | N |
| TwoFish | Y | N |
| Triple DES | Y | N |
| AES | Y | Y |
| ADD-ON MODULES | ||
| Network attached storage | Y | N |
| MS exchange | Y | N |
| Brick level mail backup for MS exchange | Y | N |
| MS SQL | Y | N |
| Lotus domino | Y | N |
| Oracle | Y | N |
| MySQL | Y | N |
| In-file delta (simple) | Y | Y |
| In-file delta (advanced) | Y | N |
| Volume shadow copy | Y | Y |
| Windows system backup and restore | Y | N |
| OPERATING SYSTEMS | ||
| Windows (all server/workstation editions) 2000/XP/2003/Vista | Y | Y |
| Linus-Kernel 2.4 or above | Y | N |
| Mac OSX-v.103 or above | Y | Y |
| Unix - Solaris, AIX ,HP-UX, FreeBSD | Y | N |
| RETENTION POLICY | ||
| Simple — by days/job | Y | days only |
| Advanced — by weeks, months, quarter and years | Y | N |
| OTHERS | ||
| Run custom OS commands before/after a backup job | Y | N |
| Filter files by extensions | Y | Y |
| Filter files/folders by any user-defined patterns | Y | N |
| Logout reminder | Y | Y |
| Offline backup reminder | Y | Y |
| Local copy | Y | N |
| Web restoration | Y | Y |
| Progress bar during backup | Y | Y |