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Outsourcing Your IT? How to Evaluate a Managed Service Provider

August 27, 2020

Deciding to hire a managed service provider (MSP) is a big decision. Deciding which MSP to hire can be an even bigger decision – and you don't want to get this wrong.

Three Common Security Mistakes to Avoid

Managing the security of your data and environment is an ongoing effort. It requires careful and constant evaluation and oversight. Be sure not to fall victim to these three common mistakes.

Don’t Let Unexpected Downtime Happen To Your SMB

Downtime refers to the inability to access critical business applications like sales processing, CRM, or email. For healthcare practices, it might be patient records or digital imaging. Without access to these tools – or even with slow access – businesses rack up a lot of additional costs while losing time, productivity, and customer (or patient) loyalty!

Standing Up to the Forces of Nature

Disaster recovery planning for healthcare practices factors in much more than data recovery. Continous testing, adjusting and ensuring patient access, will save your practice time, money, and ensure your patients are getting the care they expect.

Your Critical Data is a Target for Hackers

If you don’t have strong data protection in place today, you are underestimating some serious risks. Hardware failure, application failure, file corruption, human error, and Mother Nature are all real risks that require immediate consideration. Robust data protection is as critical to your business as healthy financials.

Healthcare Cloud Strategy: Six Considerations

How do you have a productive cloud discussion with your healthcare leadership team? Here are some guidelines and considerations for framing the need for public, private and blended cloud design for your healthcare practice.

How WFO Savvy Are You? Tips for Optimizing your Outdoor Wi-Fi

Maintaining productivity and professionalism is an important part of being successful when working from home. When venturing outside, the Wi-Fi signal will often start breaking up the further we roam from the router. Is there a way to have reliable Wi-Fi in your backyard?

Should my healthcare practice be 100% in the cloud?

Cloud computing is more than a trend; it's here to stay. What's the best way for healthcare practices to use the cloud? Our experts answer that question and more, helping make sense of your IT investment in light of your healthcare application and data needs.

Which is your MOST Critical Password?

People struggle with passwords. With so many people working from home now, it’s more important than ever to be mindful of how we protect our own personal sphere in a way that minimizes the risk of having our identity compromised.

Compliance during COVID-19: 5 Must-Dos

As you prepare to expand or re-open your practice, your priorities will change along with new opportunities and threats. Investing time now to evaluate your compliance plan will pay dividends and keep the important from becoming urgent.

How to be ONE Healthcare Practice in Many Places

What should practices put in place to ensure the same professional, high-quality patient care experience every time? Three considerations for setting up healthcare practices to work-from-home efficiently, whether your staff is logging in from one location or 200 locations.

What’s Next? Critical Success Factors for Telehealth

How can healthcare practices prepare for the future of telehealth? Decide to get by with the solutions quickly put in place around COVID-19, or #ComeBackStronger with a plan and a more comprehensive and responsive set of processes and technologies.

4 Truths and a Lie for Healthcare Practices After COVID-19

Identifying the wins is going to be the foundation of our new normal – especially as it comes to healthcare business models, patient relationships, running a successful practice and fitting telehealth into the future scheduling norms.