In many business environments, each department operates almost as a separate entity. The corporate team may set goals, allowing each department to choose its focus. Teams only come together when absolutely necessary for the greater good of the organization.
Have you seen the latest digital gadget advertised on TV? It promises to be the most advanced tool the world has ever seen.
Or maybe you’ve recently attended a tradeshow and been enamored with the latest technology. Just imagine all of the new things you can bring into your practice …
Yet before you hit the buy button, have you considered all the risks? How will you implement it? How will you secure it?
We love new technology.
Moving to the cloud isn’t new. Many practices started moving some of their tasks years ago. The past two years have only escalated the movement.
Going cloud-native is the process of relying on applications developed specifically for the cloud. A recent Gartner report estimates that by 2025, 95 percent of new digital workloads will be deployed on cloud-native platforms, up from 30 percent in 2021.
If you haven’t thought much about your cloud strategy before, you no longer can afford to push it aside.
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is a government organization that leads the national effort to understand, manage, and reduce risk to our cyber and physical infrastructure. Their vision is a secure and resilient critical infrastructure for the American people.
Think about the last security training session you attended. Was it boring?
They usually are. Management knows security is important, so they schedule several hours of tedious instruction, trying to improve your approach to security.
That rarely improves security.
How has your practice changed over the past two years?
The pandemic has forced almost every healthcare business to rethink their technology, and make changes sooner than they had anticipated even months before.
According to The Harris Poll survey, 45 percent of physicians say the pandemic accelerated the pace of their organization’s adoption of technology.
IT is changing. It had to after the last two years.
We’ve knocked down our entire approach to work in just twenty-four months and are rebuilding it from the inside out.
With that comes increased challenges with technology. How do you handle those changes?
As a business, you have two approaches for IT support: the break-and-fix method or managed IT services.
Most practices today rely on technology for many different activities. You might stream music throughout to create aesthetics and a calming vibe. Your staff may depend on terminals in various rooms to access the internet or patient files. Even the break room may have streaming capabilities to give people access to their favorite shows.
As a business, you rely on data for just about everything you do. If you’ve ever had the electricity or internet go out for any length of time, you know just how dependent we’ve become on technology.
Now imagine losing your data forever. In one moment - poof! - it’s gone.
As a practitioner, you have a lot on your plate. Seeing patients may be a priority, but it’s not the only job you tackle. Accounting. Payroll. Stocking the breakroom. You might even take the trash out at the end of the day.
But the more you grow, the more people you’ll have to rely on.