* Cloud 2.0™ Strategies Overview and Approach for Implementing Sophisticated Second-Generation Cloud Solutions for Healthcare/Medical Data, Processes and Stakeholders kloudtrack® is a technology and solution services company that offers simple, yet powerful and affordable, Software- as-a-Service and Cloud Computing (SaaS|Cloud) capabilities concentrating on the Human Side of Compliance®. The Human Side of Compliance relates to the cross-roads where individuals interact with sensitive data and information. Compliance, transparency, workflow, data integration, secure collaboration, best-practice management and risk mitigation are the anchor tenets of kloudtrack® technologies and expertise – see www.kloudtrack.com for more detailed information. kloudtrack® is one of the only technology and solution providers to address specific international, federal, state and industry-imposed governance, risk management and compliance (GRC) standards in the SaaS|Cloud environment. This understanding of GRC and transparency factors, along with expertise in extending existing IT assets to leverage SaaS|Cloud benefits, truly sets kloudtrack® and its partners apart in the market. Appropriate certifications have also been acquired supporting operational excellence and client peace of mind. Roadmap to Reimbursement™ -- Sophisticated Cloud 2.0 Solutions Take Center Stage in Healthcare In recent years, the U.S. federal government has taken dead-aim on improving patient outcomes related to healthcare services and medical services. The main tenet of the initiative relates to a concept referred to as Accountable Care. Accountable Care programs call for healthcare practitioners and regulators to audit medical processes. Primary goals include ensuring protection of sensitive patient health records and creating avenues for incentive payments and reimbursements for services that can be documented as improving patient care/outcomes. Patients are also being asked to get more “involved” in their healthcare. This participation begins with trusted access to, portability of and greater visibility into their own EHRs and thrives in an environment where communication with their practitioners is efficiently supported and encouraged – scenarios specifically supported by kloudtrack®. kloudtrack® technologies can be deployed very quickly without the typical hard-costs of new computing equipment, additional IT staff or long-term software maintenance contracts. This “low overhead” aspect of the technology makes kloudtrack® a definitive platform for both large and small healthcare organizations. The Human Side of Compliance® – Made Simple | Powerful | Affordable The kloudtrack® architecture was designed from its inception with redundancy and authentication as its primary tenets. The company’s flagship technology offering, also branded as kloudtrack®, is easily “verticalized” for adoption in a variety of business operations and industry sectors. To date, the company has focused efforts on the following primary target markets – Financial Services, Government (all levels), Healthcare/Medical and Pharmaceutical.
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Cloud 2.0™ Strategies
Overview and Approach for Implementing Sophisticated Second-Generation Cloud
Solutions for Healthcare/Medical Data, Processes and Stakeholders
kloudtrack® is a technology and solution services company that offers simple, yet powerful and affordable, Software-
as-a-Service and Cloud Computing (SaaS|Cloud) capabilities concentrating on the Human Side of Compliance®. The
Human Side of Compliance relates to the cross-roads where individuals interact with sensitive data and information.
Compliance, transparency, workflow, data integration, secure collaboration, best-practice management and risk
mitigation are the anchor tenets of kloudtrack® technologies and expertise – see www.kloudtrack.com for more
detailed information. kloudtrack® is one of the only technology and solution providers to address specific
international, federal, state and industry-imposed governance, risk management and compliance (GRC) standards in
the SaaS|Cloud environment.
This understanding of GRC and transparency factors, along with expertise in extending existing IT assets to leverage
SaaS|Cloud benefits, truly sets kloudtrack® and its partners apart in the market. Appropriate certifications have also
been acquired supporting operational excellence and client peace of mind.
Roadmap to Reimbursement™ -- Sophisticated Cloud 2.0 Solutions Take Center Stage in Healthcare
In recent years, the U.S. federal government has taken dead-aim on improving patient outcomes related to healthcare
services and medical services. The main tenet of the initiative relates to a concept referred to as Accountable Care.
Accountable Care programs call for healthcare practitioners and regulators to audit medical processes. Primary goals
include ensuring protection of sensitive patient health records and creating avenues for incentive payments and
reimbursements for services that can be documented as improving patient care/outcomes.
Patients are also being asked to get more “involved” in their healthcare. This participation begins with trusted access
to, portability of and greater visibility into their own EHRs and thrives in an environment where communication with
their practitioners is efficiently supported and encouraged – scenarios specifically supported by kloudtrack®.
kloudtrack® technologies can be deployed very quickly without the typical hard-costs of new computing equipment,
additional IT staff or long-term software maintenance contracts. This “low overhead” aspect of the technology makes
kloudtrack® a definitive platform for both large and small healthcare organizations.
The Human Side of Compliance® – Made Simple | Powerful | Affordable
The kloudtrack® architecture was designed from its inception with redundancy and authentication as its primary
tenets. The company’s flagship technology offering, also branded as kloudtrack®, is easily “verticalized” for adoption
in a variety of business operations and industry sectors. To date, the company has focused efforts on the following
primary target markets – Financial Services, Government (all levels), Healthcare/Medical and Pharmaceutical.
kloudtrack® currently offers a breadth of SaaS|Cloud software applications and solution expertise to its vertical
markets. The kloudtrack® suite includes the following applications (also referred to as Modules): kloudfile™ – Secure, online data storage and retrieval kloudflow™ – Electronic workflow and business process management oversight kloudexchange™ – “Lingua-franca” -- proprietary technology, IP and methodologies for data import/export to or
from any standards-based object or object-relational database systems and a key element of integration and interoperability with existing IT platforms and assets – extending them to the cloud
kloudcapture™ -- High-volume capture for electronic/scanned data with OCR, Barcode and BPM integration kloudsign™ – Digital Signatures or signature ceremonies; non repudiation kloudcash™ – Electronic processing of checks and transactions kloudmedia™ – Multimedia support integrated with full kloudtrack® business application modules
The combined strengths as well as the broad experience, diverse client base of kloudtrack® and our KADRE™ partner
community blend to form a well balanced team with the right set of capabilities and resources to fulfill a wide variety
of healthcare industry requirements.
With the majority of healthcare practices and institutions striving to keep operating costs to a minimum these firms
naturally rely on third-party vendors or service providers for such operations as legal, accounting, HR and records
management throughout the life-cycle of patient care. Being Software-as-a-Service and Cloud (SaaS|Cloud) based it
does not matter if kloudtrack® users are internal staff, third-party service providers or individual patients.
Access to information is assigned to users at varying “rights” levels which controls exactly what data users can see and
what each user can do with such data. This tiered user structure also controls which kloudtrack® application tools are
available to each individual user as well as the fees associated with accessing the system – keeping costs low.
kloudtrack® was developed to address the Human Side of Compliance® in the healthcare, medical, insurance,
pharmaceutical and related sectors.
This human side is the cross-roads where individuals interact with sensitive patient data. Our heritage of handling
critical financial data in the heavily-regulated securities, insurance, banking and deal-flow communities is the
foundation upon which kloudtrack® was forged.
kloudtrack® is a proven industry leader for cloud computing in three primary categories:
Sophisticated Cloud Computing Services – Cloud 2.0™ for GRC (Governance, Risk and Compliance)
Safe Sharing, Secure Collaboration, Transparent Data Management and Best-Practice Assurance
Legacy IT Integration and Extension to the Cloud
We are confident in our ability to assist organizations across a broad spectrum to meet and exceed goals and
objectives via currently procured contracts or as outlined as Task Areas/Orders in open solicitations. kloudtrack®
technologies and solution services make it affordable for organizations of all sizes (from internal operating units to full
enterprises) to employ comprehensive BPM/workflow automation technologies using SaaS|Cloud cost-savings for
productivity and business process ROI. (See Figure 1 for a graphical depiction of the full suite of application modules).
Often referred to as a “Lingua-Franca” – the kloudtrack® kloudexchange™ and kloudcapture™ modules are a
disruptive combination of technology, IP and methodologies for data import/export to-or-from kloudtrack® to any industry standard-based object-relational or relational database management system (O/R DBMS). kloudexchange™ supports the following functions and more:
Legacy IT integration and data index-mapping
Sophisticated interface for advanced reporting and analytics
Extends kloudtrack® capabilities to existing data and IT assets
Allows customers to ease into a deployment of kloudtrack® while still maintaining depreciation schedules or value contained in existing data platforms – Start Small and Scale™
Dating to the genesis of kloudtrack® when it was developed and spun-out of Arthur Andersen, kloudtrack® teams engineered patent-pending methodologies to gather data in virtually unlimited formats and from a wide array of
architectures. This integration pillar of kloudtrack® allows customers to draw multiple and disparate data from existing information assets, hold them “commonly” in the cloud, and then redistribute data however necessary for processing, approval or GRC requirements.
Rather than re-engineering existing IT systems to fit newly designed architectures kloudtrack® technologies and expertise can often allow existing IT assets to stay as they are while kloudexchange™ and kloudcapture™ take on the challenges of data and platform integration. A variety of industry-specific certifications (i.e. NIST – FIPS/FISMA; SEC/FINRA; FedRamp; SAJACC; DHS SAFETY ACT; others) as well as best-practice guidelines can be addressed using this Information Exchange model.
In Summary
kloudtrack® is primed to work closely with its partners in extending value for existing customers and prospects as
trusted advisors who will provide simple | powerful | affordable cloud-based solutions. The breadth and quality of
our past and current performance for customers clearly establishes commitment to meeting diverse challenges
through superior service and proven technology. Past track-records also provide tangible evidence of our ability to
deliver a broad range of solutions.
* kloudtrack® 5.1 was inspected by the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT®) in February 2010 and is preliminary
certified EHR technology, meeting 2 of 24 requirements for Eligible Providers published by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
(HHS) in its Interim Final Rule. The certification criteria in the interim rule were superseded by criteria in the Final Rule published by HHS on July 28,
2010. Use of kloudtrack 5.1 would not qualify an eligible healthcare provider to apply for federal incentive payments as described in the American
Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). Numerous factors relate to ARRA stimulus reimbursement.
Reporting & Analytics, Metadata, Business Intelligence
kloudtrack® Platform Modules
GRC Audit Manager
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Figure 2 – iKloud® Version 8.0 for document and file Retrieval
Introducing our Mobile Device Support Functionality.
kloudtrack® Retrieval is our new browser and device independent system that is expected to be made available to
the general public at the end of Q1 2012.
Here shown on an iPad®, but working equally well on an iPhone®, Android® device, Safari, Chrome, Firefox etc.
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Figure 3 – kloudtrack® User Matrix™ -- Access Levels
kloudtrack® User Matrix
Access Levels *
Basic
(100 Level)
Manager
(200 Level)
Operations /
Admin(400 Level)
Executive /
Principal (800 Level)
kloudfile™ Documents
Retrieve √ √ √ √**
Upload √ √ √**
Universal access √**
kloudflow™ Workflow | BPM
Participate √ √ √ √**
Re-route √ √ √**
Change Route √ √**
Create √ √**
Universal access √**
* Being SaaS-cloud based, kloudtrack customers are able to on-board users at multiple User Matrix Access Levels – affording greater deployment flexibility/scalability helping to keep cost low (Start Small and Scale™)
** 800 Level Access includes functionality of all lower User Matrix Access Levels