ITelagen Provides Game-Changing DR Service

ITelagen, Inc., a provider of healthcare IT support and system administration, announced a game-changing DR Service that meets the Meaningful Use Stage 2 measure: Protect Electronic Health Information.

The attestation requirements for meeting this measure include attesting yes to conducting or reviewing a security risk analysis and implementing security updates as needed to meet this measure. The layers to meeting this measure are endless.

ITelagen services provide clients with the security of data meeting the HIPAA security rule, the DR service guarantees resiliency and offers fast recovery of mission-critical systems. It will protect and recover client systems in a geo-redundant, top-tier, SSAE 16-compliant data center, which serves as the ‘warm site.’ The systems are replicated in the ironclad ITelagen cloud and experts take care of continuity and all DR planning, testing and documentation, and manage the process to minimize business interference.

In an article published by SearchHealthIT, author John Moore says: “Working with customers on DR procedures represents another form of planning currently in demand. Taking steps to protect personal health information (PHI) ranks among the meaningful use program’s core criteria.”

COO, ITelagen, Steve Vickner, responds to the ITelagen DR Service: “Electronic health records are not only an essential part of new government regulations concerning health care reform, but a DR plan is mandated for meeting measure #9 of MU2. To be HIPAA complaint, DR is not just a great idea, it is now the law. We are constantly telling our clients that we are no longer in a position to delay DR planning for them. And if cost is an issue, we can work out a financing option suitable to their budget.“

Although many practices have not budgeted for additional IT services, DR Service from ITelagen makes financial sense with or without meaningful use. HIPAA Security Rule, and therefore MU2 requirements, say that backed up data must be recoverable, and it must be stored offsite. Using the ITelagen cloud for offsite backup is cheaper than doing it yourself, eliminates the capital expenditure for equipment, maintenance and labor associated with backup and recovery, and it present fewer security risks than tape drives.