IT Outsourcing for Multi-Location Medical Practices in Austin: Complete Guide
Running one medical office is already technology-intensive. Running three, five, ten or more locations creates a very different IT problem. Every location may have its own workstations, Wi-Fi, printers, phones, medical devices, network equipment, users and vendors—while the organization still needs consistent security, reliable EHR access, centralized administration and appropriate protection of electronic protected health information (ePHI). That is why adding more offices does not simply mean adding more computers. It multiplies the number of systems, users, vendors, connections and potential failure points that your practice has to manage. IT outsourcing gives growing medical groups another option: instead of building a large internal IT department, the practice can use an external IT partner to manage infrastructure, support, cybersecurity, cloud services, backups, devices and technology projects. HHS states that HIPAA’s Security Rule requires regulated entities to pe...