Growing Healthcare Technology Firm to House Key Infrastructure at Baltimore Technology Park
- Cura Management Technologies Safeguards Network Uptime and Mission-Critical Applications for Physicians by Colocating at Secure Regional Data Center -BALTIMORE, MD – Baltimore Technology Park (BTP), a premier data center and the largest carrier-neutral facility in the state of Maryland, today announced that Cura Management Technologies has selected it to protect its organization’s key business systems. Launched in February of 2007, Cura is rapidly making a name for itself as an innovative developer of integrated healthcare practice management applications and provider of Electronic Medical Records (EMR) services. Cura is already managing the IT infrastructure and hosting applications for nearly 30 physician practices in the region, including applications responsible for key tasks such as patient scheduling, enrollment, billing, transcription services and document management.
Cura assures the uptime of physicians’ networks and applications by housing their servers at BTP, or by running their applications off of a shared server at BTP. Due to the sensitive nature of the patient data it protects for physician practices, and to comply with HIPAA security regulations, the company selected BTP’s secure data center to colocate its IT infrastructure. Cura also chose BTP because of its network uptime guarantees, flexible contracts, easily accessible downtown location, and available space to accommodate the company’s future growth.
“We looked at numerous options, and BTP’s telecommunications redundancy and reasonable fees for bandwidth were big for us,” said Michael Erway, Chief Technology Officer for Cura. “BTP also offers power supply and HVAC redundancy, and the security of the building is very tight. This gave us comfort that our servers are in a safe place. We also like BTP’s service that physically picks up and swaps out backup tapes for us. This gives us another source of off-site backup.”
“We are excited to see data center services recognized as the preferred solution for resolving security and compliance issues in the healthcare industry,” said Jim Weller, president of BTP and a 20-year veteran of the IT infrastructure industry. “Cura is providing critical services to the healthcare market, which really needs the efficiencies technology can bring. We look forward to helping to facilitate Cura’s continued growth.”
Cura briefly explored building its own in-house data center. However, the company quickly jettisoned the idea once it began discussing the cost and staff it would require for emergency power generators and other equipment.
Organizations in the greater Baltimore, Washington, D.C., and northern Virginia area turn to BTP to satisfy their data center needs for ample and redundant power and cooling, physical security, and bandwidth. Often driven by legislative directives such as Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA and others, organizations also choose BTP to protect their critical IT systems from natural disasters, terrorist threats and unpredictable service from utility and bandwidth providers. The data center’s convenient downtown location in a Focus Area of an Enterprise Zone of the City of Baltimore allows BTP to offer customers significant tax incentives, including a ten-year, 80% credit against local personal property taxes.
About Cura Management Technologies, LLC
Cura Management Technologies is an innovative developer of integrated healthcare practice management applications and provides Electronic Medical Records (EMR) services. We relieve physician practices of the burden of managing technology so that they can focus on patient care. Our services include mission-critical application hosting and IT infrastructure management and support. Cura Management Technologies is located at 3 Nashua Court, Suite H, Baltimore, MD 21221. For more information, please call 443-579-1100, send email to mperway@curallc.com.
About Baltimore Technology Park (BTP)
BTP is a 30,000-square-foot, purpose-built facility that provides the highest level of security and redundancy for businesses of all types and sizes who require reliable data center services. BTP’s corporate headquarters are located at 10 East Baltimore Street, Suite 1000, Baltimore, Maryland 21202. For more information, send email to sales@baltimoretechnologypark.com, call 1-877-293-5615 or 410-500-4050, or visit us at www.baltimoretechnologypark.com.
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