What is an ASP?
ASP stands for Application Service Provider, a company which provides a service, usually software rental, via the Internet. Instead of buying software and installing it on your computer, you run it over the Internet using an ordinary Web browser and pay a monthly fee for the service. The ASP model offers enormous cashflow and convenience advantages over the standard software purchasing model.
A simple definition is some central source providing application/data acess to corporate or home users. The latest concept gaining strong market momentum is that of Application Service Provicers (ASP’s). Application Service Provider – a simple definition is some central source providing application/data acess to corporate or home users. ASP’s – which usually are external organizations – rent or outsource complete applications/data to corporate or home users. How it conceptually works is that the ASP houses all of the applications/data that the customer requires. The customer will have network connectivity between their office or home/mobile computer to the ASP. This network connectivity can be either via dial-up services (Analog/ISDN), dedicated trunk connectivity (T1/T3/DSL/ATM) between the corporate office and the ASP, or internet based. This network connectivity to the ASP is the infrastructure for the applications/data which customers need access. ASP’s promise to deliver these app
ASP stands for “Application Service Provider”. An ASP is a company that hosts a client’s information system on its computer servers so the client (in this case a doctor) doesn’t have to manage the computer servers themselves. This happens regularly in our everyday lives with everything from email (e.g. Hotmail) to online banking records (e.g. online bill payments). In a physician practice environment, ASP-hosted EMRs are set up in shared data centres and each physician practice has their own secured patient database (as required by Appendix C of the 2006 Agreement). The physician accesses the EMR and their patient files over the secure physician network. This model is in contrast to the “locally hosted” approach in which each physician maintains computer servers in their office to run a separate EMR. In an ASP model, the physician continues to look after the patient records as the custodian of the record.
An ASP is an application service provider. The application is the software that both presents your data to you in your browser, but also everything else that is required to host your system. It is a service because it all exists on a web server in cyberspace. You don’t have to have any hardware or software other than your personal computer and access to the internet, and you may subscribe to use it for as short or long a period as you like.
NetFacilities is Application Service Provider, or Software as a Service, available via the Internet (100% web-based). There is no software to install and we support, maintain, and update the system constantly. Our clients love the savings we deliver – no IT resources or hardware needed, no extra or hidden fees, and a secure system available 24/7 from anywhere you have an Internet connection and Explorer 6.0 or higher. It’s easy, effective, and efficient facilities without messy software to install/maintain.
