(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Cloud solutions provider Logicworks (www.logicworks.net) has announced hosted and private cloud solutions that address the compliance concerns of companies doing business in highly regulated industries, including new private cloud customer nextEMR (www.nextemr.com).
According to its Tuesday announcement, the offering is a breakthrough for the growing number electronic medical records and electronic health records companies that want to take advantage of cloud solutions without compromising data security.
A next-generation EMR services provider, nextEMR uses Logicworks to power its comprehensive EMR and management solution for healthcare practices. It offers users a web-based system, secure remote access, e-prescribing as well as a portal that allows patients to securely download their latest medical information anytime.
“We did a comprehensive review of potential vendors and chose Logicworks’ private cloud solution because it delivered the security and HIPAA compliance for patient records we required,” nextEMR founder Dr. Alan Faustino said in a statement. “With Logicworks, we are able to deliver our comprehensive EMR and management solution for healthcare practices of any size with secure access to medical records for doctors and patients via the Internet.”
Organizations across a broad range of industries are turning to private clouds and hosted solutions as flexible alternatives for managing IT needs, however, regulations such as Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) Privacy and Security Rules Act have precluded EMR/EHR from off-site IT management given the stringent security and client data privacy rules — until now.
Logicworks offers customers a choice of a fully private cloud or a hybrid private cloud and bare-metal solution. Many companies are choosing the hybrid model to maintain their EMR database on a traditional architecture, while using virtual machines as needed for applications. And to substantially ease the deployment of and transition to HIPAA-compliant systems, Logicworks partnered with cloud-based IT compliance and security solutions provider Alert Logic to enable Logicworks customers to detect threats, eliminate vulnerabilities, and manage log data.
“Widespread adoption of EMRs holds great promise for improving health care quality, efficiency and patient safety,” Logicworks chairman and chief executive officer Carter Burden said in a statement. “Our private cloud addresses the concerns people have, and should have, about the security and privacy of healthcare records. A public cloud, where IT resources are shared, just presents too many risks.”
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