Netsmart offers the Avatar Suite of software as a hosted application for organizations who do not want to acquire and maintain hardware internally, and who are looking to control upfront costs.

There are many advantages to using Avatar in an application service provider (ASP) environment:

• The operation of the hardware required to host complex applications is included in the basic monthly fee, and based on the size of the implementation, this can either eliminate or minimize infrastructure concerns.
• Ongoing tasks related to 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.
• Application software updates are available without the need for costly onsite upgrades, ensuring that the customer is always using the most current version of the Avatar product suite.
• The maintenance of desktop applications is greatly reduced.
• The only tools required 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.
• Software services pricing models enable 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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