RazorInsights, a source of information technology solutions for rural, critical-access and community hospitals, has joined with Fogo Data Centers to offer a solution allowing many hospitals and their internal systems to subscribe to a service allowing them to share one IT application to reduce costs of maintaining individual platforms.
The solution, according to the source, includes IT hosting, colocation and dynamic cloud computing capabilities.
“This partnership provides a platform which drastically increases capacity and adds capabilities on the fly without forcing our cash-strapped hospitals to invest in all new infrastructure and hire additional IT personnel,” said Michael McKenzie, COO, RazorInsights. “We are extremely pleased with this partnership. Fogo is providing us with the same high level of customer service that we give our hospital clients.”
“RazorInsights realized they could call and reach us – talk to us,” said Brooks Snow, CEO at Fogo Data Centers. “We’re not just a bunch of inaccessible geeks in the cloud. We’re people oriented.”
RazorInsights will help hospitals develop electronic health record systems using its ONC-ATCB compliant ONE-Electronic Health Record, as well as its other enterprise suite solutions. These offerings include subscription-based or pay-per-use services that provide RazorInsights’ application real-time to its customers using a multi-tenant architecture – software that allows many systems to share an application at the same time.
This helps clients avoid purchasing and maintaining servers on their own, according to the release, with no software license to purchase. The system can be expanded as needed, and the press release reports that “upgrades are seamless.” Hospitals simply pay an all-inclusive monthly subscription.
The agreement between the two companies focuses on security and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) compliance.
Privacy and security can be issues when dealing with applications hosted on the cloud.
Some have concerns that storing medical records “in the cloud” is not safe. But Healthcare Technology Magazine reports that storing medical records in the cloud “brings simpler storage and optimized security to the notoriously automated system of healthcare claims, processing and delivery. By migrating healthcare operation to the cloud, the bottom line savings alone fight “healthcare crime.”
RazorInsights’s cloud-based solutions are fully compliant with the security and privacy rules of HIPAA.
Edited by
Braden Becker
