IT Support for Healthcare
Healthcare IT needs are substantially different from businesses operating in other industries. You have state laws to comply with, plus the hundreds of pages of federal HIPAA regulations. It’s a wonder that anyone wants to be a doctor these days!
Your practice needs more support to keep your systems functioning than you can get from a lone soldier IT guy, and hiring your own internal IT department is expensive and sometimes just not an option. For those practices with an internal IT Professional, the demands of the daily issues keep them busy so there is little to time think ahead or plan for your practice's growth objectives, let alone keep up with the new threats and cyber attacks that the medical industry is facing.
Our Perfect-Fit Support for Heathcare Practice's go beyond compliance, we provide expert guidance and a world-class knowledgeable healthcare IT team.
Some of the areas that we can help your medical practice include:
- Improve performance of the EHR / EMR systems
- Decrease exposure to HIPAA violation penalties
- Keep mission-critical applications running reliably and smoothly
- Backup and Disaster Recovery Planning and Service so your data is safe
- HIPAA-compliant solutions to protect your patients Protected Health Information
- Non-biased IT consulting with technology & system recommendations based upon the needs of your practice. We work with many vendors, not just a select few, so we don’t take kick backs from vendors
- Help you plan and enhance your network for future upgrades
Having worked with medical practices for the past 20 years, we know what it takes to support you.
Hacking and IT security issues, including phishing scams and ransomware attacks
are still the leading cause of all HIPAA data breaches. The numbers for 2017 per the HHS OCR Portal:
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Hacking / IT Incident
0
Employee Error
0
Theft
0
Referred to DoJ in
4th QTR 2017
Is Your Practice HIPAA Compliant?
That simple question can be thought provoking, if not a bit overwhelming to any healthcare provider. It usually invokes various responses from Doctors and Practice Managers from anger, disgust, to a shrugging of the shoulders and an “I don’t care – it won’t happen to me” attitude.
Non-Compliance is not an option according to the federal government and failure to provide documented evidence that you are HIPAA compliant can be accompanied by fines up to $1.5 Million dollars. Unfortunately, ignorance is no longer bliss.
We all know the saying, “An apple a day keeps the Doctor away.” We also all know that it means if you take care of yourself and make wise choices, you won’t need to visit a Doctor as often. Your practice is no different when it comes to HIPAA. A little proactive preparedness on your part can keep you safe from security breaches and HIPAA fines.
We’ve put together a FREE guide that gives you the minimum standards that every medical practice should have in place to protect itself, “6 Simple Steps to Protect Your Practice from a Data Breach”.
This guide also contains a 22 Question HIPAA Privacy and Security Rule Proficiency Exam that you can print out and give to your staff to test their HIPAA knowledge. We’ve even included the answers, so you will know immediately where your staff is lacking in their HIPAA knowledge.
Simply fill out the form to have immediate access to the guide.