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Protect your patient data and your budget at the same time

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Overview Healthcare providers have an obligation to protect patient data from internal and external threats. But they still need immediate access to that critical data, 24x7. Find out with this e-kit how IBM can help you reduce risk, enhance data security and patient privacy, and comply with regulationsall while reducing operating costs.

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Publisher	IBM	File Format	HTML
Date Published	July 2009
Format	Resource Center
Topics	Knowledge and Data Management, Data Center, Business Intelligence - Data Warehousing, ROI - TCO, HIPAA

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