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Infrastructure requirements considerations:
- Supports HHS Certified HIT Requirements
- Supports JACHO/HIPPA/HITECH Compliance Requirements
- Supports exiting organizational policies and strategic infrastructure plans (Ex: Standard Platforms and operating systems)
- System Management: Backup/Archive, Security Tools, Monitoring Tools to initiate proactive management practices
- Business Continuity / Data Management Requirements : Backup/Archive, Plan for Disaster Recovery infrastructure requirements (off-site)
- Support standard platforms (IBM, HP , Storage area networks, etc)
- Vendor hardware (Server, PC, Networking) Roadmaps
- Support wired / wireless technologies
- Supports data encryption
- Failover or system/infrastructure redundancy capabilities (reduce or eliminate single-point of failures (7x24 operation)
- Vendor Training / Certification
- Supports Directory Services (Centralized user authentication model – one id/password)
- Ease of Migration
- Vendor support