INTRODUCTION

Derive Technologies has built a richly diverse IT business solutions practice around the requirements of Healthcare enterprises. Our portfolio of solutions supports the complex needs of private and public hospital and clinical systems, medical provider and caregiver organizations, education and biomedical research facilities and pharmaceutical companies.

• Our goal is to bring technological innovation to the challenges of patient care, regulatory compliance, information dissemination, teaching, medical and pharmaceutical research and development and other service provision.
• We aim to create powerful systemic, fiscal and human return on investment for each institution and bottom-line results for the public.
• As a technology consultancy with more than two decades of experience in sustaining business requirements and systems for Healthcare and other enterprises, we are an enduring trusted advisor.
• Our breadth of competencies spans everything from the implementation and utilization of specific Healthcare-related software applications to the cabling and power requirements for your data center.
• We are also there 24x7, 365 days a year with on-site and remote technology support specialists to respond immediately to all critical IT infrastructure needs of Healthcare environments.
  

HEALTHCARE INFRASTRUCTURE

• Derive's core expertise is in providing robust, secure and cost-effective infrastructures to a wide variety of businesses.
• We serve the technology needs of Healthcare organizations, while also supporting the Financial Services, Education, Media, Legal, Retail, Government and other verticals.
• This means that, while we can identify, target and support the specific infrastructure needs of hospitals, laboratories, pharmaceutical companies, physician offices and many more, we also have a pure technology focus.
• Our multidisciplinary focus enables us to provide infrastructure solutions--those related to business continuity and disaster recovery, servers, storage, security and more--with a broad view.

For Healthcare enterprises, we concentrate on:

• New Technologies: Helping you to utilize existing and new technologies to keep data protected and highly available and operational costs down.
• Compliance and Regulations: Enabling you to remain compliant with HIPAA and other healthcare requirements.
• Improved Service Provision: Most of all, helping you to employ information technology to provide the best and most economical, critical, primary, health maintenance and other care to patients.

We directly collaborate with all key stakeholders within the Healthcare community—doctors, nurses, researchers, IT executives, financiers and sponsors, administrators, auditors and many others--to deliver solutions that fit the scope of your care, business and technology environments.

REGULATORY COMPLIANCE

Solutions from Derive support the needs for Healthcare, research and pharmaceutical data and systems and reporting structures to be rock solid to meet regulatory requirements. We are well versed, as are our trusted, long-term IT manufacturer alliance partners, with technology needs and governance surrounding the regulations of:

• HIPAA
• EPA
• CDC
• OSHA
• JCA
• FDA
• CLIA
• ERISA

Whether it is ensuring that an institution meets HIPAA IT storage and data availability requirements, that clinical trials can be conducted with compliant reporting models or that a hospital data center passes OSHA inspection, we can facilitate an end-to-end solution that gives you peace of mind and lets you concentrate on your primary goals.

MOBILE POINT-OF-CARE SOLUTIONS

• We have pioneered, and continue to proactively explore, the mobilization of technologies that bring Point-of-Care applications directly to any bedside.
• Derive has engaged with its IT manufacturer partners to conduct comprehensive surveys of healthcare practitioners to customize Point-of-Care solutions to meet a multiplicity of needs.
• The result has been Derive's deployment of mobile and handheld, computing kiosk and thin-client terminal technologies applications and other systems for the utmost flexibility of care provision and secure, reliable data exchange.
• Derive has also led the field in the utilization of ruggedized technologies to facilitate patient care on-the-go, bringing ruggedized handheld, notebook and other wireless devices to points of care that extend far beyond hospital and doctor's office walls.
• Our ruggedized solutions support heavy use in emergency units, ambulances, remote emergency response, comfort, and military facilities and much more.
  

HEALTHCARE OPERATIONS

Derive consults on, implements and supports numerous productivity solutions that are geared specifically to the operational requirements of Healthcare enterprises. Our experience in the digitization and data conversion of documents and forms and digital workflow systems brings dramatically improved efficiencies to your institution.

We have, for example, provided:

• End-to-end digitization services: For small numbers--up to hundreds of thousands--of patient records, invoices and contracts.
• High-speed, terrestrial and mobile scanners.
• Metadata-rich storage and retrieval devices and applications.
• Web client-based data interfaces.
• Our solutions enable fully searchable records, both as image and as data, to meet all regulatory requirements and operational needs.
• Our specialized offerings in this arena include paper and forms management with digital pen scanning systems and secure form tagging and retrieval with unique IDs.
  

DATA CENTERS

• Derive not only supports the core IT infrastructure within the data center of a Healthcare facility.
• Servers, SANs, network switches, and other complex technology components must work in concert with power, cabling, flooring and physical infrastructure that is delivered by a varied assortment of providers.
• Our competencies in Healthcare business requirements and in enterprise and desktop systems are matched by the acumen of our certified Project Managers.
• Our Project Managers coordinate the services of physical plant, communication, power, cooling, and other contractors, providers and Local Unions.
• In conjunction with our partners and your building and other contractors, we cost-effectively design, implement and maintain Healthcare data centers, which our collective, Derive-managed team ensures are compliant with HIPAA, infection control and other Healthcare regulations and that meet the terms of your Service Level Agreements (SLAs).
• We also collaborate with such organizations as the CWA Communication Workers of America and others to ensure smooth, compliant and economical installation of cables, HVAC systems, unique requirements (environmental), cabling and further trade work that is cognizant of infection control and other related Healthcare requirements.
  

NYS AND NYC BACKDROP CONTRACTS AND MBE CERTIFICATION

• Derive is Certified with the State of New York on the backdrop contracts for the provision of technologies built by the leading manufacturers of business systems and services surrounding those technologies.
• We are also a NYS and NYC-certified Minority Owned Business Enterprise (MBE), which lets you receive technology consulting and procurement support from an organization officially recognized for its diversity.
• Many Healthcare organizations within the New York Metropolitan Area and throughout the state are inherently inclined, and compelled, to work with technology solution and supplier companies that have met the rigorous requirements for placement on backdrop contracts and have achieved the distinction of MBE status.
• This offers powerful benefits to Healthcare enterprises in terms of service and the most economical pricing possible on countless IT business solutions.