Des Moines, IA - ecfirst.com Healthcare announced today that it has executed a strategic agreement with ISI Telemanagement Solutions, Inc., of Schaumburg IL, that will provide ecfirst with the opportunity to offer a wide array of ISI's products and services to clients. ISI is a leading global provider of comprehensive cost management solutions for voice, data, wireless and integrated communications. The solutions included in the agreement with ecfirst include telecommunication cost audit/analysis/optimization, wireless optimization, and ISI's HIPAA-compliant certified call accounting software platform.
Mark McNeill, ISI's Director of Healthcare Telecom Services, states "ISI has historically had an excellent relationship with ecfirst and with the HIPAA Academy. They are a unique organization whose skills and capabilities within their marketplace are unmatched. ISI has a long tradition of supporting the telecom expense management needs of healthcare customers. We currently provide products and services to hundreds of healthcare clients, and we are helping these clients reduce many facets of their telecom spending. We look forward to bringing similar value and benefit to ecfirst's growing family of clients."
“With ISI’s international client-base and leadership in delivering and supporting quality products and services and ecfirst’s firece information technology integration services, the healthcare industry will greatly benefit from this partnership. Together ISI and ecfirst will allow clients to make solid, time and money saving decisions regarding strategic investments in IP infrastructure.” stated ecfirst.com CEO Ali Pabrai.
ABOUT ECFIRST.COM
Endorsed by the American Hospital Association (AHA) for its training solutions, ecfirst.com is an Inc. 500 business focused on delivering information technology integration services to the healthcare industry. ecfirst.com Healthcare understands the hospital information technology infrastructure. Creator of the HIPAA Academy and the industry’s gold standard on HIPAA skills certification, ecfirst.com Healthcare has a diverse portfolio of hundreds of hospital clients. ecfirst.com Healthcare has delivered integrated technology solutions to hospitals all across the United States in the areas of:
- Risk Analysis and Vulnerability Assessment
- Business Impact Analysis (BIA) and Contingency Planning/Disaster Recovery
- Single Sign-On/Context Management Products and Implementation Services
- Audit Services
- Managed Information Security Services (partial to full outsourcing)
- Managed HIPAA Compliance Services (partial to full outsourcing)
- Project Management
- Technical Professional Staffing (contractors and full-time employee placement)
- Information Security Policy Templates Customized for Compliance and Tailored for Hospitals
- HIPAA as well as Information Security Compliance Training and Certification
To request a 2007 Healthcare Executive Briefing document on Regulatory Compliance and Information Security, please e-mail a request to Lorna.Waggoner@ecfirst.com . For more information, please visit www.ecfirst.com.
About HIPAA ACADEMY
HIPAA Academy delivers compliance solutions across the United States every day. Our deep knowledge of the HIPAA and other regulations such as PCI DSS, FISMA as well with standards such as ISO 17799:2005 is substantiated with hands-on experience implementing technical solutions in the healthcare industry. The HIPAA Academy introduced the industry's first, and today's leading, credentials for HIPAA skills certification: Certified HIPAA Professional (CHP) and Certified HIPAA Security Specialist (CHSS). HIPAA Academy training courses and certification exams are now available on-line. For more information, please visit http://www.hipaaacademy.net/.
About ISI TELEMANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS, INC.
Headquartered in Schaumburg, IL, ISI Telemanagement Solutions, Inc. is a leading provider of solutions that optimize information, productivity, and costs involving data, wireless, voice, and IP communications. Audit, inventory, network optimization, and outsourcing services allow clients to free-up time and money to make strategic investments in IP infrastructure and applications. ISI has an international client-base and is a leader in reliably delivering and supporting quality products and services. In addition to thousands of clients that consistently rate ISI as superior in quality surveys, ISI's solutions are certified and distributed by industry leaders such as Cisco, Avaya, Nortel, IBM, EDS, AT&T, and many others. ISI facilities, processes, and data security comply with ISO 9001, SAS 70, and other important standards.
Additional information about Infortel Select, ISI's Healthcare Consulting Division, and other ISI solutions, can be found at www.isi-info.com, requested via e-mail to Ken Rothacker at krothacker@isi-info.com, or by calling (847) 706-5026.
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