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PITTSBURGH, Sept. 8, 2011 - / PRNewswire / - Senior health across western Pennsylvania will participate in the workshop of the Medical Group Management Association September 16th, at the Regional Alliance in Cranberry, Pennsylvania.

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Joe Jones, Chief Operating Officer of Ascent data, will present "Best Practices for Information Security Infrastructure and Data" as they relate to group practices, hospitals, assisted living facilities and clinics.

Jones will address various threats infrastructure, including power outages, physical violations, cyber attacks, fires and natural disasters can expose and develop the electronic health record (EHR) at risk. Jones will also recommend cost-effective IT infrastructure solutions, such as Private Cloud Hosting, Colocation and Managed Services, which can be implemented to ensure data security and availability.

Climb two clients of health data, the Alliance of Pediatrics and Behavioral Health Mercy will be featured during the presentation.Jim Troup, executive director of the Alliance of Pediatrics, is a member of MGMA and will attend the workshop. Pediatric Alliance primary infrastructure is the data Ascension SAS 70 Type II data center. Troup said, "Climb data had everything we needed in a data center -. secure location and connectivity, redundancy and a high-level 24x7x365 technical personnel grouping of services of our IT infrastructure data Ascent helped me to sleep night.My time and resources are better spent managing our EHR applications, evaluating emerging technologies, working with our suppliers and improve services to patients, regardless of IT infrastructure security, data loss and downtime. "

About the Data Ascent

Rise of data is a trusted provider of Pittsburgh for data center services, including managed services, colocation, server virtualization, hosting private cloud, data security and business continuity solutions.The infrastructure and applications customers are protected in our secure, resilient, state-of-the-art SAS 70 Type II compliant data center in O'Hara Township, near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. By outsourcing applications and infrastructure for data Ascension, companies can dramatically improve operational efficiency and reduce business risks and free up human and financial resources to focus on business objectives. For more information, please contact our sales team by email at sales@ascentdata.com, call 866.866.6100 or visit www.ascentdata.com.

Lessons learned in IT outsourcing » The Outsource Blog

Despite the abundance of logistics-related software on the market, many companies still prefer to develop their own apps. That requires a hefty commitment of in-house IT resources, however, since a single application can require thousands of lines of source code. To handle the added workload, some companies have turned to third-party software developers, many of which are located outside the United States.

But that approach presents its own set of challenges, as Mark Ohlund can attest. Ohlund, who is vice president of technology strategy for third-party logistics service specialist PLS Logistics Services, described his company’s experience with outsourcing at eyefortransport’s 13th annual Logistics CIO and Supply Chain Technology Forum this past April.

Based outside of Pittsburgh in Cranberry Township, Pa., PLS Logistics has long used a proprietary transportation management system (TMS) in its operations. The software, which PLS touts on its website as “one of the industry’s best supply chain solutions,” was developed by the company’s in-house programmers. But when PLS went to upgrade the app 18 months ago, it took the outsourcing route to hold down costs and avoid a huge staffing buildup. Ohlund notes that programmers—particularly Java and .Net developers—are in short supply in the Pittsburgh area.

PLS cast its net wide in its search for the right contractor. In total, it evaluated 27 candidates from countries all over the world, including Russia, China, Argentina, Brazil, Germany, and Vietnam. It rated each supplier against an extensive set of criteria that included pricing, programming capabilities, and considerations such as time zone, language, and presence of a U.S. office.

In the end, PLS chose a company in India for the job, which included making three separate enhancements to its TMS. It then arranged for the vendor’s employees to spend several weeks onsite at PLS’s premises to familiarize themselves with the technology as well as the company’s work flow.

Given its meticulous preparations, PLS had every reason to expect the process would flow smoothly. Yet problems quickly developed. For starters, there was confusion about the timeline. When it took on the assignment, the Indian software developer assumed it would be making the upgrades one at a time. So it came as a shock to learn that PLS wanted all three done at once. To keep the project on track, the contractor was forced to hire additional programmers.

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