Avatar On Demand (ASP)

Control Upfront Costs and Reduce Ongoing Management Requirements with Hosted Avatar Solutions

Avatar On Demand is the ideal solution for organizations seeking to control upfront costs by eliminating the initial investment needed to acquire and maintain hardware internally. This on-demand (or software as a service) model enables organizations to run the Avatar software suite in an Application Services Provider (ASP) or hosted environment. With Avatar On Demand, the Avatar software is operated in Netsmart’s secure data center so there is no deployment of traditional software. Avatar On Demand gives Netsmart customers the flexibility to choose how the application is deployed.

The advantages of using Avatar On Demand include:

• Elimination of infrastructure management because the hardware needed to host complex applications is deployed and managed by Netsmart in a hosted solution
• Predictable costs in the form of a basic monthly fee based on the size of the implementation
• Tangible benefits, including 99.9 percent uptime, backup, recovery, response time performance, scalability for additional users, and equipment maintenance are included as part of the overall hosting fee so resources can be refocused on more critical activities
• Elimination of onsite software upgrades because the most current version of Avatar is deployed in the ASP environment
• Reduced resources needed for desktop applications
• Only required tools are a commercially available browser or Netsmart’s client/server browser
• Additional users, corporate entities, workgroups, and/or sites can be added quickly with appropriate password and user role security in place

The Avatar On Demand software as services pricing model enables organizations to manage cash flow on a per named user, per month basis, helping organizations control costs. Customers do not need to monitor operating system, database or application user licenses; all of these are included in the monthly per user fee. Applications are provided with the latest security technologies that ensure HIPAA compliance and protect all aspects of the record with complete audit trails.

The Avatar product set is CCHIT Certified^SM. Learn more.

CCHIT^SM is a service mark of the Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology.

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