VERITAS Software Helps Unity Health Center Protect Critical Patient Data and Comply with HIPAA Regulations; VERITAS Data Protection Products Help Growing Hospital Meet Business Continuity Requirements for HIPAA Compliance.MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- VERITAS Software Veritas Software Corp. was an international software company that was founded in 1983 as Tolerant Systems, renamed Veritas Software Corp. in 1989, and merged with Symantec in 2005. It was headquartered in Mountain View, California. Corporation (Nasdaq:VRTS VRTS Veritas Software (stock symbol) VRTS Verification Requirements Tracking System ) today announced that Oklahoma-based Unity Health Center is using VERITAS Backup Exec Backup Exec is backup software for Microsoft Windows environments currently developed by Symantec. Backup Exec has a long history of being sold from one company to another. (TM) software to protect critical patient and hospital data and help comply with Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was enacted by the U.S. Congress in 1996. According to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) website, Title I of HIPAA protects health insurance coverage for workers and their families when of 1996 (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, ) regulations regarding data availability Refers to the degree to which data can be instantly accessed. The term is mostly associated with service levels that are set up either by the internal IT organization or that may be guaranteed by a third party datacenter or storage provider. and disaster recovery planning. Unity Health Center also uses the VERITAS Backup Exec Desktop and Laptop Option to help ensure that critical information on employee laptops is fully protected and quickly recoverable in the event of equipment failures, disaster or other disruption. Unity Health Center was formed in 2002 after the unification of Shawnee Regional Hospital and Mission Hill Memorial Hospital. With more than 700 healthcare professionals on staff, the Center's mission is to bring technologically advanced, compassionate health care to its community. Since unification, VERITAS has played a pivotal role in protecting the Center's increasing volumes of patient data and supporting the organization's expanding IT infrastructure. Data Protection for HIPAA Compliance VERITAS has played a key role in helping Unity Health Center comply with the data protection and disaster recovery requirements mandated by HIPAA. "We are well on our way to being in full compliance with the Security Rule by the April 2005 deadline," said Kena Jones, CHP CHP Chapter CHP Combined Heat and Power CHP California Highway Patrol CHP Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi (Turkish: Republican People's Party) CHP Chemical Hygiene Plan (OSHA) CHP Community Health Plan , MCSE See Microsoft certification. MCSE - Microsoft Certified System Engineer , director of MIS, Unity Health Center. "VERITAS has been absolutely critical in our ability to meet HIPAA compliance criteria." For healthcare providers such as Unity Health Center, a loss or corruption of data can result in non-compliance with HIPAA regulations and may also directly affect patient well-being. To ensure the highest level of care for its patients, the Center's information technology policy requires a business continuity solution that ensures 24/7 data availability and disaster recovery support for more than 700 on-campus and remote staff. To meet this challenge, Unity Heath Center turned to VERITAS Backup Exec software, which helped the hospital extend data protection to remote users while simultaneously reducing backup times by 75 percent. "The VERITAS Backup Exec Desktop and Laptop Option is good for both healthcare staff and the IT department. VERITAS helps us ensure that remote users have 24/7 access to the data residing on their desktops and laptops and, using Backup Exec, we've shortened backup times for our remote user data from four hours to one hour," said Steven Vasquez, MIS network administrator, Unity Health Center. "With VERITAS, we've significantly improved IT productivity and our IT staff can now focus more of its time on supporting our patient care resources." About VERITAS Software VERITAS Software, one of the 10 largest software companies in the world, is a leading provider of software and services to enable utility computing (1) Pay-per-usage processing provided by a service organization that uses its own computers and facilities. Customers access the computers via a private network or over the Internet and are charged according to how much computing time they use, such as CPU seconds, minutes or hours. . In a utility computing model, IT resources are aligned with business needs, and business applications are delivered with optimal performance and availability on top of shared computing infrastructure, minimizing hardware and labor costs. With 2004 revenue of $2.04 billion, VERITAS delivers products and services for data protection, storage & server management, high availability Also called "RAS" (reliability, availability, serviceability) or "fault resilient," it refers to a multiprocessing system that can quickly recover from a failure. There may be a minute or two of downtime while one system switches over to another, but processing will continue. and application performance management that are used by 99 percent of the Fortune 500. More information about VERITAS Software can be found at www.veritas.com. Copyright (C) 2005 VERITAS Software Corporation. All rights reserved. VERITAS, the VERITAS Logo, and Backup Exec are trademarks or registered trademarks of VERITAS Software Corporation or its affiliates in the U.S. and other countries. Other names may be trademarks of their respective companies. |
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