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Built for the Industries Where IT Cannot Fail

We don't serve everyone — and that's intentional. Our expertise runs deep inside the sectors where downtime means more than lost revenue. If your IT environment has zero tolerance for failure, you're exactly who we built this for.

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Medical Practices

Private clinics, group practices, and specialty offices operate in one of the most regulated IT environments in any industry. A HIPAA violation, an EMR outage, or a ransomware attack doesn't just cost money — it disrupts patient care.

We've worked inside clinical environments long enough to understand the workflows, the compliance obligations, and the after-hours urgency that comes with keeping a practice running. Our engineers don't need a tour.

Common Challenges We Solve

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EMR connectivity and performance issues

Slow eClinicalWorks, Epic, or Athenahealth logins that frustrate providers and delay appointments.

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HIPAA audit exposure

Missing risk assessments, unsecured devices, or undocumented access controls that create regulatory liability.

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Ransomware with no recovery plan

Backups that exist on paper but have never been tested — discovered only when it's too late.

What We Deliver

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Full HIPAA Technical Safeguards

Annual risk assessments, encryption of PHI at rest and in transit, audit logging, automatic screen locks, and documentation ready for OCR review.

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EMR / EHR Integration & Support

Dedicated support for eClinicalWorks, Epic, Athenahealth, and others — including interface troubleshooting, server optimization, and HL7 feed management.

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Immutable Backup with Tested Recovery

Air-gapped backups of your clinical data with monthly automated recovery tests. You'll never wonder if your backup works — we prove it monthly.

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After-Hours & Weekend Support

Practices don't always go down during business hours. Our 24/7 coverage means a real engineer answers at 6am Saturday before your first patient.

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Radiology Centers

Radiology is one of the most IT-intensive clinical environments that exists. A single MRI study can exceed 1GB. A full day's volume can overwhelm infrastructure that wasn't designed for it — slowing reads, delaying diagnoses, and frustrating radiologists.

We engineer networks and storage architectures specifically for DICOM imaging workloads — with the throughput, redundancy, and PACS integration your facility demands.

Common Challenges We Solve

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Slow image load times

Bottlenecked networks that make radiologists wait seconds — or minutes — per series, destroying read throughput.

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Storage capacity running out

Unplanned storage growth from DICOM archives with no tiering strategy — leading to emergency purchases and scramble migrations.

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PACS downtime during upgrades

Vendor-driven upgrades that take the PACS offline during clinical hours, halting reads and creating backlogs.

What We Deliver

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High-Throughput Imaging Network Design

10GbE backbone with dedicated DICOM VLANs, QoS policies, and low-latency switching — engineered to eliminate image load bottlenecks.

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Scalable DICOM Archive & Tiering

Hot/warm/cold storage tiering that keeps recent studies fast and moves aged archives to cost-efficient storage — automatically, without manual intervention.

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PACS Server Management & Support

Ongoing PACS server administration, upgrade coordination, and radiologist workstation optimization — including display calibration support.

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HIPAA-Compliant Image Security

Encrypted DICOM transmission, access-controlled image repositories, and complete audit trails for all PHI-containing imaging data.

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Professional Offices

Law firms, accounting practices, and financial services organizations hold some of the most sensitive data in existence — client financial records, privileged communications, and confidential case files. A breach isn't just costly, it can end a firm.

We bring the same rigor we apply to healthcare IT to professional services environments — enterprise-grade security and productivity tools scaled to offices of any size.

Common Challenges We Solve

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Business email compromise (BEC)

Spoofed partner emails that trick staff into wire transfers or disclosure of sensitive client information.

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Unsecured remote work environments

Staff accessing confidential files from personal devices or unmanaged home networks without VPN or MFA.

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No technology strategy or roadmap

IT decisions made reactively — replacing hardware only when it breaks, with no budget planning or lifecycle management.

What We Deliver

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Enterprise Security for SMB Budgets

EDR, advanced email filtering, and MFA enforcement — the same security stack as large enterprises, right-sized for a 10–50 person firm.

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Microsoft 365 & Productivity Management

Full Microsoft 365 administration — licensing, Exchange configuration, SharePoint, Teams, and compliance policy enforcement.

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Secure Remote Work Infrastructure

Zero-trust remote access, managed VPN, and MDM for firm-owned and BYOD devices — so work-from-anywhere doesn't mean risk-from-anywhere.

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vCIO Technology Strategy

Quarterly technology reviews, hardware lifecycle planning, and budget forecasting — strategic IT leadership without a full-time hire.

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Multi-Site Clinics & Health Systems

Managing IT across multiple locations means managing multiple attack surfaces, multiple network configurations, and multiple points of failure — simultaneously. Most MSPs treat each site as a separate client. We treat your entire organization as a single, unified system.

Our SD-WAN expertise and centralized management platform give you consistent performance, visibility, and security policy enforcement across every location from a single pane of glass.

Common Challenges We Solve

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Inconsistent security across locations

One well-secured site and three that became the breach entry point — because policy wasn't enforced uniformly.

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Unreliable inter-site connectivity

Branch offices unable to reach the EMR or shared clinical applications, with no failover when the primary link goes down.

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No centralized visibility

IT teams flying blind across locations — no unified monitoring, inconsistent patching, and manual asset management.

What We Deliver

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SD-WAN Multi-Site Connectivity

Intelligent WAN fabric with automatic failover across ISP links, QoS for clinical traffic, and centralized policy management — so every site performs like your main location.

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Unified Security Policy Management

One security policy applied consistently across all sites — same firewall rules, same patch cadence, same EDR configuration. No location is the weak link.

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Centralized Monitoring & Alerting

Full visibility across all locations from a single dashboard — uptime, performance, security alerts, and compliance posture, all in one view.

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New Location Onboarding

Standardized deployment playbook for new clinic openings — from structured cabling to day-one production-ready systems, on schedule.

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