White Papers 

Connecting the HIPAA Dots

This article details the story of how Antares helped one client develop and deploy HIPAA project management tools.

Consumer-Driven Health Plans (CDHP)

EDS discusses how implementing Consumer-Driven Health Plans can benefit managed healthcare companies, helping to realign the internal organization and ensure high quality delivery of CDHP products to consumers. This paper also identifies four key areas that will ensure the success of the implementation.

Antares and Mainstar - Achieving Highly Effective Resiliency and Availability

Antares, a rapidly rising star in the outsourcing industry, faces the challenge of providing nonstop data availability while ensuring business resiliency for its clients. With data access solutions from Mainstar, Antares is able to meet its objectives – and minimize expenses.

How Technology Helps Healthcare Payers Maintain a Leading Edge

To stay competitive, many health insurance companies are considering investing in new software and/or hardware systems. Unfortunately, most organizations cannot afford the initial investment in Information Technology (IT) solutions, ongoing maintenance and support, or developing the appropriate skilled workers to operate such an IT infrastructure. This white paper discusses the business requirements and constraints the healthcare payer sector must tackle and defines a business model for success in supporting those conditions.

How to Move From 'It's Not Possible' To 'It's a Done Deal'

This article offers the story of one non-profit organization that used IT outsourcing to reduce operating expenses and improve systems stability without compromising the quality of services.

Information Technology Outsourcing Case Study

An Ohio-based Managed Care Organization needed to create a technology infrastructure quickly to take advantage of new business opportunities. Through this case study, Antares describes how it provided customized technology, secured data hosting, Web site design and maintenance, and on-site support to assist its client.

The Decision Drivers to Information Technology Outsourcing

Antares developed this white paper to answer the question, “Is there a market for information technology outsourcing?” The answer is yes, and Antares describes why companies are outsourcing, how the outsourcing partner is selected, the IT outsourced functions most frequently outsourced, and the traits of a successful outsourcing relationship.

Change is Good: Managing Outsourcing Transition to Maximize Value

Examining the challenge of successfully managing the changes that characterize outsourcing projects, this white paper focuses on strategies that can be used to neutralize conflict and ensure cooperation between vendors and clients.

Project Management Best Practices

Following project management best practices can help foster a more proactive partnership between an outsourcing vendor and the customer, resulting in more consistent and successful project delivery. This paper describes the techniques and deliverables that make up typical project management elements, such as structure, planning and control.