Cedar Rapids, Iowa: Involta announced today they have established a mutually beneficial technology partnership with Allscripts®, a leading provider of health information technology solutions. To better serve the company’s mission to build open, connected communities of health, Allscripts will leverage Involta’s nationwide footprint of world-class data center facilities and managed service offerings.

Nowadays, more and more connected medical devices generate significant amounts of real-time data. Along with the large volumes of data there will be a demand for the protection of an enterprise backup and recovery solution and the ability to scale, especially if they are subject to stringent data-retention regulations.

Headquartered in Ohio, one of the largest integrated healthcare delivery systems in the state was grappling with challenging realities of modern healthcare, including:

• Aging IT infrastructure
• Double-digit annual growth in data storage needs due to increasing patient data digitalization
• Intensifying threat of privacy breaches and data theft – and consequent need for high-level security and privacy protection
• Need for data accessibility, storage management and synchronous replication
• Limited resources to allocate to IT infrastructure and maintenance

Close the Refrigerator Door!”  OR “Were you Born in a Barn!”

Neither phrase seems to make you an IT expert and maybe you’ve heard those phrases a time or two before technology even came on the scene, from your Dad or Mom as you looked for that perfect leftover.

Now, more than ever, the healthcare industry is facing significant challenges in respect to IT infrastructure. 

Below is a brief list of what Involta's Chief Security Officer thinks should be top of mind for anyone in healthcare IT.