The Importance Of Having A Contingency Plan In Place

What if disaster struck today? What if a tornado picks up your building and takes it away? Or your best employee resigns and walked out the door? Or a major medical issue will keep you out of the office for ...

What Facebook Can Teach You About EHR Security

Facebook and security: these two words rarely show up in the same sentence together without loss and frustration being there too. Through Facebook, the concept of “privacy” has changed in meaning. If you put your information in, assume it’s ready ...

Could Blockchain Prevent The Breach That’s Coming?

Two years ago, over 145 million Americans had their personal information hacked thanks to the Equifax breach. Has anything changed? Not Much. A recently released report from the US General Accountability Office found that four of the biggest government organizations ...

Should You Worry About Monitoring the Dark Web?

Want to know which industry has the most potential for criminal activity? If you guessed healthcare, you’re correct. A study by Ponemon showed that nearly 90 percent of healthcare organizations had a data breach in the last two years. Roughly ...

The Importance Of Patches

Patch Tuesday (recently changed to Update Tuesday) is an unofficial term referencing Microsoft’s release of security patches for its operating systems and software products. It’s occurred the second Tuesday of every month since late 2003. Of course, Microsoft doesn’t own ...

The Cost of Hiring The Wrong IT Staff

Want to make sure your IT department runs smoothly? Maybe it’s time to hire someone new.  Or is that the best use of your time and money? According to an article in Forbes, the cost of onboarding a new employee ...

Is Encryption Really Safe?

You can’t go a day without reading about a database that was hacked or a system that was broken into, releasing data into the great unknown. Falling victim to cybercrime is never on anyone’s to-do list. But when it happens ...

3 Easy Ways To Monitor Cloud Use By Your Employees

Have you ever typed up an email and sent it to the wrong person? We’ve all done it. But it can send your heart racing if the information is sent to someone that shouldn’t have access.  Or maybe you’ve clicked, ...

Ready For an IT Change? Automate

Smart technology. Artificial intelligence. Telemedicine. The changes in today’s healthcare are coming on strong.  But at the end of the day, you still only have 24 hours to deal with it all. And if you don’t want to work the ...

Robotics, AI, and Medicine: How It’s Changing Patient/Provider Relationships

What’s the store for future of healthcare? While we might not be able to predict everything that’s coming, we do know that technology will be a part of it.  By 2021, it is predicted that one in three surgeries here ...