Concordant Teams with Oculan to Cut HIPAA Compliance Costs.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 26, 2003 Uses Oculan's Multi-Function 'Purple Box' to Offer Customers Cost-Effective Security Solution; Concordant Whitepaper Cites Oculan Appliance as "Central Command and Communications Center An agency charged with the responsibility for handling and controlling communications traffic. The center normally includes message center, transmitting, and receiving facilities. Also called COMCEN. See also telecommunications center. for HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act of 1996, Public Law 104-191) Also known as the "Kennedy-Kassebaum Act," this U.S. law protects employees' health insurance coverage when they change or lose their jobs (Title I) and provides standards for patient health, Security" Oculan(R) Corporation (www.purplebox.com) announced today that Concordant, Inc. (www.concordantinc.com) has joined Oculan's(R) Premier Partner program to offer health care organizations a unique new way to achieve dramatic cost-savings from their HIPAA compliance projects. Concordant, the New England-based IT consulting firm Noun 1. consulting firm - a firm of experts providing professional advice to an organization for a fee consulting company business firm, firm, house - the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments; "he worked for a , is using the groundbreaking 'purple box', the Oculan 250(TM) infrastructure security appliance Security appliances protect computer networks from unwanted data traffic, intruders, email spam, enforce policies, and may also be used to create and manage VPNs. There are a number of types of security appliances. , to deliver a 5-step "HIPAA Security Lifecycle" solution that cuts costs and achieves rapid compliance for customers. "We were truly amazed a·maze v. a·mazed, a·maz·ing, a·maz·es v.tr. 1. To affect with great wonder; astonish. See Synonyms at surprise. 2. Obsolete To bewilder; perplex. v.intr. when we discovered a unique new solution on the market, the Oculan 250(TM), that integrated into a single appliance multiple infrastructure management technologies that are key to HIPAA Security compliance," said Sean Megley, Director of Consulting for Concordant. "We then moved quickly to integrate our consulting methodologies with the Oculan technology to deliver a cost-effective 'HIPAA home run' solution. By partnering with Oculan, we believe we can lower an organization's HIPAA compliance costs by at least 25 percent on a recurring annual basis, in addition to reducing the time it takes to achieve compliance." "As Oculan launches its push into the health care market, we are thrilled to be partnering with one of the leading IT consultancies in the New England New England, name applied to the region comprising six states of the NE United States—Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. The region is thought to have been so named by Capt. region," said Darrek Porter, Vice President of Marketing for Oculan. "Concordant's state of the art consulting methodologies like the Security ScoreCardSM and the MAPS(2)SM have allowed the firm to attract an impressive customer base. We think the combination of Oculan's technology with Concordant's strategic know-how provides an unbeatable value proposition to health care customers." The core of the partnership's HIPAA Security Compliance Lifecycle strategy is the Oculan 250, which packs network and systems management, desktop and server management, intrusion detection See IDS and IPS. , vulnerability scanning, bandwidth analysis and asset management into a single appliance with one easy to use interface. The appliance can manage up to 250 desktops, 25 servers, and 25 network devices. For health care organizations with larger networks, Oculan's Distributed Appliance Suite (DAS) provides the same functionality and value as the Oculan 250. Without the Oculan 250, an IT department would normally purchase distinct and non-integrated software products to perform each of the functions pre-integrated into the Oculan 250. These separate product purchases would be dramatically more costly to the customers in terms of price, deployment time, training, support, and ongoing maintenance. Concordant leverages all these advantages to wrap their own HIPAA Security services Security services are state institutions for the provision of intelligence, primarily of a strategic nature, but also including protective security intelligence. Examples include the Security Service (MI5) and the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) in the United Kingdom, and the around the Oculan appliance, thus enabling health care organizations to achieve compliance quicker, with far less cost and operational headaches than traditional software solutions. To read the Concordant whitepaper, 'HIPAA Security Strategy Brief", click here: http://www.oculan.com/file_cabinet_public/docs/HIPAASecurityBrief.pdf To read the Oculan 250 data sheet, click here: www.oculan.com/file_cabinet_public/docs/Oculan_250_datasheet.pdf About Oculan Corporation Oculan Corporation provides network, system, and security management solutions developed specifically for small and medium sized businesses. Affordable, easy to install, and easy to use, Oculan's appliance-based solutions are sold exclusively through a global channel of value-added resellers A value-added reseller (VAR) is a company that adds some feature(s) to an existing product(s), then resells it (usually to end-users) as an integrated product or complete "turn-key" solution. (VARs), system integrators, management service providers (MSPs), and other solution providers. Oculan Corporation is a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. based in Raleigh, North Carolina For other uses of this name, see Raleigh. Raleigh (IPA: /ˈrɑli/, ral-ee) is the capital of the State of North Carolina and the county seat of Wake County. . Oculan(R) is a registered trademark of Oculan Corporation, and Oculan 250(TM), OcuSys(TM), OpticNerve(TM), OcuGuard(TM) and OcuStat(TM) are trademarks of Oculan Corporation. For more information, go to www.oculan.com. About Concordant, Inc. Concordant Inc., based in North Chelmsford MA, works with organizations to design, implement and monitor IT security and privacy programs--especially in tightly regulated industries. The company has an extensive track record, delivering outstanding results for business leaders in healthcare, financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. , hospital management and insurance. |
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