Calls and letters are great, but there's still nothing like being there.
If you are planning to attend the Virginia HIMSS Advocacy Day, please use the links below to get the phone numbers for your representatives.
Contact your delegates and senators as soon as possible to schedule an appointment to meet with them on January 22, 2009 between 2pm - 4pm.
This is the best way to be guaranteed some face time with your legislators.
HOUSE OF DELEGATES
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Get there early, and you may need money for meters or parking garages.
DIRECTIONS TO MCV ALUMNI HOUSE
Healthcare providers are increasingly applying automation to improve the quality and safety of patient care, improve operational efficiency, and attract and retain talent. The need for interdisciplinary communication and collaboration is driving rapid growth of interconnectivity between hospitals, clinics, physicians’ offices, universities and other entities. At the same time, IT infrastructures have become heavily burdened and complexity has become difficult to manage.
Symantec recognizes that its customers are facing challenges in controlling rapidly increasing storage costs, fighting underutilization of storage, protecting data and privacy providing secure, yet flexible access to physicians and nurses, while measuring effectiveness of existing security measures against industry regulations and internal standards and policies.
In addition, recent changes in the economy as well as new legislative mandates have led to additional concerns, including:
- Increased costs and decreased income
- Need for tight information management without impacting clinical end user
- Recent increase in government audits, e.g. HIPAA or CMS RAC (Recovery Audit Contractors)
- Increase in administrative complexity, e.g. ICD-9 will be replaced by ICD-10 in 2011, introduction of MS-DRG’s, and introduction of new and additional Quality Measures; all of which can only be managed with a streamlined and tightly integrated IT system.
Based on years of working with healthcare providers, partners, and industry organizations, Symantec’s Healthcare Industry offers solutions for healthcare providers to effectively and successfully meet today’s challenges. We provide best practices, products and services in the following areas:
• Protecting data privacy, protecting managed and unmanaged endpoints, including laptops, medical devices, mobile devices, and databases
• Managing storage complexity for initiatives such as digital imaging (PACS), EMRs and others
• Automating security policy creation, monitoring, measuring and enforcing policy; and automating IT compliance management
• Managing electronic messaging, archiving and legal e-discovery
• Deploying, managing and upgrading client systems and mobile devices
• Delivering personalized workspace computing to clinicians at any location or device
Symantec Critical Infrastructure Security for Healthcare
Symantec helps healthcare providers to securely enable communication and collaboration between hospitals, clinics, physicians' offices, laboratories and universities; as well as protect critical assets, while securely enabling remote access into provider networks. Symantec solutions help to protect critical endpoints, prevent data loss to ensure privacy and regulatory compliance, and automate, monitor, report and enforce security policies for compliance with internal standards, as well as industry and government regulations.
Symantec IT Lifecycle Management for Healthcare
Symantec's solution for IT Lifecycle Management helps hospitals manage proliferating computers and devices, without the need to physically locate devices in different areas of the hospital and perform tasks manually. By centralizing and automating management of devices, hospitals can discover and track assets, migrate systems, deploy software and patches, configure systems and perform maintenance tasks quickly and easily. IT lifecycle management software from Symantec enables hospital IT organizations to handle maintenance tasks transparently in the background minimizing interruptions to service and clinical staff.
Symantec Storage Management for Healthcare
Symantec's storage management solution for healthcare reduces the need for new storage hardware by increasing storage utilization across heterogeneous platforms, operating systems, and storage tiers. Symantec helps healthcare organizations to control costs and realize the full benefits offered by digital imaging (PACS), EMRs, and other technological advances. IT managers can use a single software interface to view, control, and migrate information stored on multiple servers in disparate locations, such as radiology and cardiology. A centralized management solution simplifies procedures for archiving, backing up, and recovering data according to organizational and regulatory requirements. By prioritizing information and creating different tiers of storage, ensuring that recent information is easily retrievable. Eliminating redundant backups of unique data can reduce storage requirements and shorten backup window times, thereby lessening demands on IT and lowering costs.
Symantec Electronic Messaging and E-Discovery for Healthcare
Healthcare organizations struggle with the complex task of providing sufficient storage space for email without limiting user’s productivity and communication. Further, they need to ensure and also ensuring that they can locate relevant messages for legal e-discovery requests or internal investigations. Symantec offers a comprehensive solution to help providers reduce the cost of infrastructure and administering messaging systems, such as Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Domino. Symantec’s message management solution automatically captures and indexes all email messages and attachments so that they may be easily searched and retrieved, saves only a single instance of each message and attachment (de-duplication) and supports hierarchical storage management, which retains recent email messages in quickly accessible storage and moves the messages to lower cost, less accessible storage as they age. Symantec’s solution also establishes a policy for retaining, retrieving and destroying email and other forms of communication, and provides rapid, effective legal discovery required by regulations (e.g., revised Federal Rules of Civil Procedure).
Symantec IT Regulatory Compliance for Healthcare
Symantec offers a broad portfolio of solutions to help health care providers define, control, and govern IT policy compliance. Symantec helps in automating key IT compliance processes by ensuring coverage of external mandates through written policy creation, dissemination, acceptance tracking, and exception management. Symantec enables providers to demonstrate compliance to external and internal policies by automating the assessment of technical and procedural controls and evaluating this against risk criteria. Evidence of compliance can be gathered on configurations, permissions, patches, vulnerabilities, and manual attestation of procedural activities. Symantec solutions also help to remediate deviations to standards, enabling immediate corrective actions or triggers to 3rd party response workflow systems.
Symantec Endpoint Virtualization Suite for Healthcare
Symantec Endpoint Virtualization Suite is a flexible platform for delivering personalized desktop computing to doctors, nurses, clinicians, and other healthcare workers, no matter where they work or roam. Healthcare professionals, unlike most corporate computer users, are rarely tied down to a single location. Physicians and specialists must access applications from multiple facilities, including multiple locations. Nurses and therapists may work in many areas of a hospital or clinic or in a variety of locations within the healthcare network. Symantec Endpoint Virtualization Suite delivers each worker’s desktop, including all authorized applications, to any computer on the network, with a single login. Shared computers become personal PCs, regardless of the user’s location. Applications and data – the professional’s “workspace” – follow the worker.
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