Netsmart Technologies and Vision Solutions Announce Data Protection and Disaster Recovery Services Alliance
Service to Foster Maximum Operating System Availability and Business Continuity for Netsmart Software Customers
GREAT RIVER, N.Y. --Netsmart Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of enterprise-wide software and services for health and human services organizations, and Vision Solutions, Inc., today announced a strategic alliance to provide data protection and disaster recovery software to Netsmart customers.
The initial service offering will make Vision's data protection and recovery software for AIX available to Netsmart's CMHC/MIS software customers using the IBM-AIX operating system. Vision's software and Netsmart's Advanced OS Support for High Availability Environments are designed for organizations requiring the highest levels of user uptime and system availability, and include:
o Real-time data protection through replication
o Flexible "Any Point in Time" recovery
o Data Recovery environment can be used for backups, testing, reporting, and training
o 24 x 7 support for critical down system issues
o System performance monitoring, review, and operating system tuning
o System administration assistance, including: system health monitoring, error log review, performance tuning and customization assistance
o Quarterly failover testing
o Vision software patching and upgrade assistance
o Operating system diagnostics and patching
o AIX administration assistance, including disk space management, error log review and custom backup script development
o Operating system and firmware upgrade assistance
"Our customers provide services that require a high level of availability and protection of key clinical, billing and other mission-critical data," said James L. Conway, chief executive officer, Netsmart Technologies. "As the provider of the software essential to their organizations, we are pleased to partner with Vision Solutions to make available a proven solution designed to protect our IBM-AIX operating system customers' critical data and ensure business continuity."
As organizations move to a paperless environment, they must ensure their data can be recovered quickly and completely in the event of a natural disaster, software corruption, security breach, virus attack, deleted files and other causes of data loss. In addition to data protection and recovery, the new service provides an additional return on investment by allowing providers to use replicated data for development, testing, reporting, training and tape back-ups.
The backup and recovery solution provided by Netsmart and Vision helps Netsmart customers meet HIPAA data disaster recovery requirements and mitigates the effects of unplanned downtime, such as inability to access clinical and billing systems, interruption of electronic prescribing capabilities, and delays in reporting and reimbursements. It should also reduce costs associated with downtime or data loss, including the inability to assist consumers, delayed billing cycles, interruption of cash flow, negative impact on revenue, added expense of manual data recovery, staff overtime and loss of staff productivity.
"Every healthcare provider needs to ask, 'How much could it cost me to lose even a small amount of data and information?' " said Edward Vesely, senior vice president of marketing at Vision Solutions. "It's essential for health and human service organizations to protect themselves from downtime and disasters, whether caused by natural means or human error. We are pleased to partner with Netsmart to provide their customers with the resources and expertise to protect their businesses, clients and staff."
For more information about the backup and recovery service offered by the Netsmart Vision strategic partnership, call Netsmart at 1-800-472-5509.
About Netsmart Technologies, Inc.
Netsmart Technologies is an established, leading supplier of enterprise software and software as a service (SaaS) solutions for health and human services providers. More than 18,000 customer organizations, including 350,000 care providers and 40 state systems, use Netsmart products to help improve the quality of life for millions of people each year.
Netsmart customers include mental health and substance abuse treatment agencies, psychiatric hospitals, private and group mental health practices, public health departments, vital records offices and managed care organizations. Netsmart's products are full-featured information systems that operate on a variety of operating systems, hardware platforms, and mobile devices, and offer unlimited scalability.
Netsmart provides expertise and solutions that help its customers meet all the criteria for "meaningful use" of an Electronic Health Record (EHR) under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009. These include experience in electronic health record certification, the InfoScriber(TM) e-prescribing service, the Netsmart CareConnect(TM) service that will enable the sharing of clinical information through health information exchanges, the Netsmart ConsumerConnect(TM) Web portal to provide consumer access to their care information, and a flexible platform to capture and share outcomes data. Netsmart customers can utilize Netsmart solutions to meet all Stage 1 Meaningful Use criteria, avoiding the costly and time-consuming process of integrating solutions from multiple vendors. Netsmart's Avatar 2011 software recently completed the first phase of Certificate of EHR Compliance for Stage 1 Meaningful Use criteria.
Netsmart's Connected Care initiative allows behavioral and public healthcare providers to share clinical data electronically within their internal processes, externally with other providers, and with consumers via a Web-based portal, enabling high quality, consumer-directed care.
For information about Netsmart Technologies' full range of solutions for health and human services organizations, visit www.ntst.com or call 1-800-472-5509.
About Vision Solutions, Inc.
Vision Solutions, Inc. is the world's leading provider of information availability software and services for Windows®, Linux, IBM Power Systems and Cloud Computing markets. Vision's trusted Double-Take®, MIMIX® and iTERA(TM) high availability and disaster recovery brands support business continuity, satisfy compliance requirements and increase productivity in physical and virtual environments. Affordable and easy-to-use, Vision products are backed by worldwide 24X7 customer support centers and a global partner network that includes IBM, HP, Microsoft, VMware and Dell. Privately held by Thoma Bravo, Vision Solutions is headquartered in Irvine, California, USA with offices worldwide. For more information, visit visionsolutions.com, search for VisionAvailability on popular social networks or call 1-800-957-4511 (toll-free U.S. and Canada) or 801-799-0300.
This EHR Module (Avatar 2011) is 2011/2012 compliant and has been certified by an ONC-ATCB in accordance with the applicable certification criteria adopted by the Secretary of Health and Human Services. This certification does not represent an endorsement by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services or guarantee the receipt of incentive payments.
SOURCE Netsmart Technologies, Inc.
CONTACT: Dave Kishler, Netsmart Technologies, +1-614-764-0143, Ext. 7252, dkishler@ntst.com
Web Site: www.ntst.com
