BSTI's Rick Brady selected for CCHIT Work Group. Rick Brady, President and CTO of Okemos, Michigan consulting firm BSTI, has been selected to serve as a Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT) Security Work Group member. CCHIT, under contract from the US Department of Health and Human Services, has been tasked with developing a process to certify Electronic Health Record (EHR) applications.  This effort is part of President George W. Bush’s vision for improving the quality and reducing the cost of healthcare through widespread use of health information technology. Certification will make it easier for healthcare providers and payers to adopt EHRs, and will enable the President’s call for EHRs to be in use for most Americans by 2014. More information about CCHIT can be found at www.cchit.org.

Michigan State University HR Services chooses BSTI. BSTI, an Okemos, Michigan based IT consultancy, has been retained by Michigan State University Human Resource Services, managed by Director Kristine Hynes, to provide project management services for the duration of a systems development and integration project to increase efficiencies in employment processes for 17,000 on-campus student employees. More information on MSU Human Resources and BSTI can be found at www.hr.msu.edu and www.bsti.com, respectively

Web based seminar series started. A series of web based seminars ("webinars") will be started in November. The series is meant to be informative, yet concise, running under 30 minutes in duration per seminar. The first scheduled seminar will be titled "Practical Security: A Management Perspective". <read more>

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