A hospital is leveraging a third-party-hosted, SaaS-based EMRS for all its regional locations. The EMRS will consolidate all existent stand-alone regional systems. All regional systems managers are…

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Options

• AAnalyze business requirements and design the new EMRS to run the most popular IaaS provider
• BAnalyze and communicate to regional managers that dual service providers will be used at all
• CAnalyze business requirements, and design and deploy client-to-site VPN for all regional hospital
• DAnalyze business requirements and deploy the SaaS EMRS within the hospital's headquarters

• A
  26% (10)
• B
  10% (4)
• C
  59% (23)
• D
  5% (2)

Explanation

Regional managers are concerned about availability of the hosted SaaS EMRS - meaning reliable, secure access from each regional location. Client-to-site VPN addresses this directly by creating dedicated, encrypted tunnels from each hospital site to the hosted SaaS platform, ensuring consistent and protected connectivity regardless of public internet variability. It also satisfies HIPAA requirements for transmitting sensitive patient data. Running on the most popular IaaS (A) does not address regional connectivity. Dual service providers (B) addresses redundancy at the provider level but not regional access reliability. Deploying within headquarters (D) defeats the purpose of a third-party SaaS model and creates a single point of access failure for remote locations.

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