Managing excessive paper-based medical records is not for the faint of heart — especially when compliance violations can result in fines that well exceed seven figures. Healthcare organizations that employ a virtually “paperless” EMR or EHR solution may believe that they are immune to penalties but that’s simply not the case. Send a fax to the wrong person or leave a fax in whole or part at an unattended fax machine and you could be subject to costly fines. In fact, the number and amount of compliancy fines in the US is at an all-time high.

Join OpenText on April 12th at 2:00PM Eastern / 11:00AM Pacific for an educational webinar, where you will hear from security and privacy expert Rebecca Herold, AKA the Privacy Professor, and learn about the risks associated with paper-based communications and processes. During the webcast, attendees will also hear from Chris Patterson, the IT Administrator for Florida Heart and Vascular Associates, and see how they integrated an OpenText digital faxing solution to achieve HIPAA compliance, improve processes, and dramatically lower costs.

Who should attend?

• Healthcare Compliance Officers adopting new healthcare compliance initiatives
• Healthcare Professionals wanting to protect and secure patient information
• Healthcare Practice Managers seeking to improve productivity and patient care
• Healthcare Informatics roles searching for ways to improve workflow and streamline business processes

Register today!

Visit OpenText at HIMSS12 – the largest annual healthcare IT conference and exhibit in the US. Over 20 current and former OpenText staff (including our former and recently retired CEO John Shackleton) will be on hand to showcase our company’s full line of healthcare solutions spanning healthcare records management to secure private health information exchange.

Stop by booth# 2474 at any time to view product demonstrations or to speak with OpenText healthcare experts. We encourage attendees to learn about our solutions and discover how they have helped thousands of healthcare organizations capture and streamline their paper-based clinical and business processes, manage compliance, mitigate risk and enhance delivery of services. If you’d like to schedule an appointment with us during HIMSS12, click here!

To learn more about OpenText healthcare solutions, visit our new healthcare microsite.

OpenText at HIMSS12 (Booth# 2474)
Venetian Sands Expo Center, Las Vegas
Exhibition Dates: Feb. 21 – 24, 2012

• Tuesday, February 21 – 1:00pm -6:00pm
• Wednesday, February 22 – 9:30am-1:00pm & 2:30pm-6:00pm
• Thursday, February 23—9:30am-1:00pm &2:30pm-6:00pm

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Open Text Fax Server, RightFax Edition v 9.4 FP1 adds to its industry leading integrations by offering server virtualization support for Microsoft Hyper-V.

By Erik Enderson

Server virtualization technology has evolved into the datacenter infrastructure of choice for businesses of all sizes and complexities. In fact, the International Data Corporation expects server virtualization to be a $60 billion market in 2010. In addition, Gartner (2010) predicts that more than 50% of enterprise data center workloads will be virtualized by the close of 2012. To meet needs of this expanding market, Open Text Fax Server, RightFax edition has expanded its virtualization support to include Microsoft Hyper-V 2008 R2.

What are the requirements for Hyper-V virtualization?

The same as a traditional RightFax system, plus:

• Fax Server must be installed on a Hyper-V platform that meets the minimum requirements as documented by Microsoft
• Each RightFax server should be installed on a separate virtual machine
• No virtual RightFax server may contain fax board hardware
• All virtual Fax Servers must be at version 9.4 with FP1 or higher.

What components can be virtualized?

Excluding fax boards, every part of Fax Server can be virtualized: Remote Workservers, Remote Doc Transport, Web Services, etc. Virtual Fax Servers can also connect to a virtualized SQL Server, Active Directory, Exchange Server, etc (see graphic below).

Figure 1. A FoIP-based virtual Fax Server environment

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Why Virtualize?

Because less is more. Virtualization allows you to rapidly consolidate multiple physical machines onto a single traditional server. The result is a significant reduction in expenditures (less hardware & energy costs – i.e., “green IT”); rapid ROI & lower TCO (scalable, flexible, yet simple to implement); and a centralized point of administration to help streamline server management and increase IT agility. Additional benefits include application provisioning and simplified maintenance, high availability, and disaster recovery.

Figure 2. Consolidation – the core virtue of server virtualization

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More Information

For more information on Fax Server virtualization including a number of FoIP-based scenarios, see the newly revised whitepaper, Virtualizing Open Text Fax Server with Real-time Fax over IP and Open Text Fax Gateways.