A natural step for an owner of a very small business is to move his or her rag tag team of employees into a nice office and string together a bunch of Best Buy computers into a “workgroup” network.  Perhaps, they found an IT guy that can maintain those machines and assemble a file server [...]

Today’s workforce is always on the run.  You’re receptionist may be too sick to come in the office but still functional enough to answer phones.  You may be able to catch some phone calls but you are out sealing deals with some potential clients.  Perhaps, rent at the commercial building you occupy is not worth [...]

The other day I was working on some old and failing ultrasound equipment, Acuson 128 XP over at Rady Children’s Hospital in Serra Mesa, San Diego. The display for viewing the ultrasound went out and the doctor freaked for two reasons. One, she couldn’t accept any more patients to tell what color to paint the [...]

MFPs for the home office tend to be super cheap and pretty good if you purchase a Canon.  I love being able to scan multiple pages into one seemless PDF format then email it or printing out a nice glossy photo.  However, the ink on these machines will hit your wallet hard after a couple [...]

Once again I got prompted the other day with the common questions of “what the hell do we do with all those medical records”?  I seen them multiply like gremlins at offices where from floor to ceiling patient records are stashed anywhere there’s room.  It can seriously be a fire hazard. There are several things [...]

This article is for the junior IT admin or office manager who has yet to get really acquainted with expensive data storage equipment but somehow got stuck with the task of researching equipment for use in the office.  I started with the host bus adapter because that’s what is going to interface with your storage [...]

Anyone catch the article on Electronic Medical Records in Businessweek? Check it out… article on Electronic Medical Records “Silicon Valley Gold Rush” in Businessweek The first is taking about the great shift to electronic from the dated ”zombie” paper records and who are the major players in this arena. It’s pretty good read. The next [...]

Well, it may as well be in anywhere USA… Anyway, we nerd it out with the following equipment: (In the four post rack) Dell PowerEdge Servers DLT and LTO Backup Devices UPS Power Backup (two post rack) Patch Panel HP Procurve Cisco 2800 Router connected to Cox High Speed Internet Sonicwall Firewall

Here’s a best practice guide that will ensure major EMR, EHR or many other small business servers applications have a great foundation for their business to thrive.  Note – It is best to consult with your IT integration team but this simplified guide should get you thinking on some of the basic requirements. Hardware and [...]

We work with a lot doctor practices at Scripts La Jolla and Encinitas; and plenty of other small businesses all around San Diego.   One thing they all have in common is they embrace the Local Hosted Model.  The Local Hosted model  is your basic client-server setup where workstations all connect to one server where users [...]