A disaster recovery plan with five layers of redundancy

This CIO's disaster recovery plan for branch offices (hospitals) seems to have it all covered -- including the business mission.
How to build an IT VMO or standards body

Vendor management offices and standards bodies can help large organizations save money on IT purchasing and better manage vendor relations, both critical during a recession.
CIO tackles complex security, patient privacy mandates

Carole Cotter, CIO of Lifespan, a health system affiliated with Brown Medical School in Providence, R.I., talks to SearchCIO.com's Linda Tucci about the complexity of delivering IT in a health care...
BPM kicked up a notch with business event processing

Tom Brady, CIO of a clinical network for administering chronic biologic drugs, explains how business event processing allows his firm to coordinate the distribution and administration of meds to pa...

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Disk management helps firm solve storage problems

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Huge ROI for CIO with online bidding system

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- The impact of cloud and social media on risk management strategies
  
  More organizations are incorporating the cloud and social media into business processes, changing enterprises’ risk management strategies.
- Q&A: The future of e-discovery technology as data processes evolve
  
  Information governance expert Jeffrey Ritter discusses how technology for e-discovery evolved, and how it influences data processes and management.
- MetricStream and CipherCloud announce new cloud security platforms
  
  In this Product Spotlight, learn about two new security platforms from vendors CipherCloud and MetricStream.
Health IT
- Challenges, opportunities of HIE development: Insights from MAeHC
  
  The Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative suffered a data breach in 2010. Read this Q&A to find out how that incident changed their encryption policy.
- Omnibus rule and business associate compliance: Q&A part 2
  
  In the second part of a Q&A, Micky Tripathi shares advice on how to monitor business associates and maintain HIPAA omnibus compliance.
- Q&A: Challenges, benefits of implementing single sign-on in hospitals
  
  Seconds add up to hours when Chilton Hospital reduces login times through single sign-on technology. Learn about its implementation in this Q&A.
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- Small-business cybersecurity: Mitigating employee and customer threats
  
  Small-business cybersecurity programs often hinge on how organizations prepare for -- and respond to -- employee and customer threats.
- CIO pushes for public fiber optic network, saving taxpayers millions
  
  Doing the math on own vs. rent, a CIO galvanizes the community to build its own fiber optic network, saving taxpayers $10 million over 10 years.
- 'Turnaround' CIO led charge as Hallmark adapted to U.S. health reform
  
  CIO Neal Kaderabek was integral to Hallmark's IT overhaul as it adapted to U.S. health reform. Read more about this IT Leadership Awards finalist.
Cloud computing
- Sequestration stymies federal government cloud ambitions
  
  The federal government is under mandates to consolidate data centers and deliver IT as a Service, but sequestration makes this easier said than done.
- VMware charges into public cloud IaaS fray as Dell exits
  
  Dell will discontinue its OpenStack and VMware vCloud-based public cloud offerings as VMware delivers its vCloud IaaS.
- Cloud migration obstacles remain for heavily regulated industries
  
  Financial, government and healthcare industries must overcome data security breaches and regulatory issues for a successful cloud migration.
Mobile Computing
- Bringing BYOD to your enterprise
  
  Bring your own device (BYOD) can be a boon for both employees and enterprises, but clear policies and management tools are needed.
- Meeting technical requirements for mobile health care deployments
  
  IT departments deploying mobile health care solutions must ensure that using mobile devices in health care settings doesn't violate federal laws or compromise security.
- Making the call: Distributed antenna systems and in-building wireless
  
  Distributed antenna systems and in-building wireless solutions are two options to improve wireless cellular coverage within an enterprise facility.
Data Center
- Data center technologies evolve to meet tomorrow's computing demands
  
  VMware's upcoming public cloud and AMD's 64-bit ARM servers are technologies for the data center that exemplify the changes in the IT industry.
- New data center cooling strategies to improve efficiency, lower costs
  
  Stagnant strategies for data center cooling will keep energy bills climbing ever higher, but a more modern approach can bring them back down to earth.
- Converged systems usher in data center transformation
  
  The rise of converged systems has brought a new level of manageability to the data center, but these integrated offerings have a few drawbacks.

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