Andromeda: Your Key To Unlocking The
 Benefits Of Electronic Medical Record Systems For Your Medical Practice

What Andromeda Can Do For You

• Aid In The EMR Software Selection Process  
• Assess Your Current Information Technology For EMR System Compatibility  
• Install/Implement All Aspects Of Your Chosen EMR System
• We Work Directly With Your Chosen EMR Vendor—you're never "caught in the middle!"
• Andromeda Offers Both "Hosted" & "In-House" EMR/EHR Systems (and can explain the relative benefits!)

Hosted "Cloud-Based" EMR Solutions

Cloud-based or hosted EMR (also known as ASP, web-based, or Saas EMR) is a newer option for medical facilities interested in making use of EMR systems. In essence, Andromeda Technology Solutions can host your actual EMR software system on its own secure servers while you interact with it just as if the system resided physically within your office. Compared to a traditional in-house client/server model, this solution can shorten the implementation cycle and greatly reduce impact on your current data network while significantly reducing up-front costs.

This is a summary of the Hosted Solutions we offer for EMR/EHR medical software. While we customize each solution to match the customers’ needs, common features and options of our setups include:

• Both dedicated and semi-dedicated servers are available.
• State-of-the-art hardware, including Dell and Lenovo Systems.
• 24x7x365 monitoring of servers and software.
• Redundant hard drives and power supplies to protect against hardware failure and eliminate downtime
• Hourly backups and nightly offsite copy.
• Hot-spare server that can take over for a failed device in under one hour.
• Chicagoland area data center was built to ANSI / TIA 942 Datacenter Standards. SAS70 Type 2 Datacenter audited by third party firm
• Customers and clients have been audited and passed HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley, Gramm-Leach-Bliley, SAS-70
• Data center is PCI compliant for credit card handling and handling of financial data
• Multiple Physical POEs (points of entry) for fiber inputs into center
• Redundant APC UPS's: uninterruptible power supply batteries, powers equipment during generator startup
• Cummins diesel generator: Hospital-grade diesel generators provide for all datacenter operations
• N+1 Power Redundancy on all systems. No single point of failures possible
• Generator backup: 24 hours of on-site fuel plus emergency refueling service to resupply in an emergency

Andromeda will either work with your current IT vendor or directly with you to get connected to your applications at the data center. There are various ways this can be done; the best approach will depend on your exact needs.

How Can We Be So Confident?

• Since our inception (1994), we have served all manner of small businesses, providing IT software & hardware installation, service, and support from building wiring to server/computer setups, from websites to email/web hosting, from in-house data networks to integrated remote office voice networks.
• For more than 10 years, we have been installing and supporting EMR/EHR and Practice Management systems for physician offices throughout northern Illinois.
• Our EMR installations include top vendors such as Greenway PrimeSUITE™, AllScripts™, gMed™, GE Centricity^®, AllMeds^®, Varian, and more...
• Anyone can sell you a bloated set of hardware or—worse—an unstable "not quite enough memory" headache. Our vast general & EHR-specific data networking experience enables us to specify a "mama bear" just right, memory/server configuration every time! There's no need to gamble with your own business!
• Our unsurpassed local support means you are typically never more than a few days away from a service call from one of our IT-certified technicians on staff. Same-Day emergency service is the norm—not an exception!
• Sounds too good to be true? We're happy to provide you with references from among our many satisfied EMR/EHR customers.

Your Key To Unlocking Government Incentives For EMR

Time is of the essence! By delaying your EMR/EHR installation into 2012, you have already missed out on some one-time tax incentives (Section 179 bonus write-offs). Other stimulus incentives are in place but are already slated for phase out over the coming years!