Recent (false) rumors of Bruce Willis suing Apple, for the right to transfer his iTunes collection to his kids, raise important issues regarding your rights to the content and applications you buy online. If you buy an app for your mobile device, can you transfer it to another member of your team? If the app…
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Lessons from 9/11: Preparedness Is About People, Not Just Systems
As National Preparedness Month draws to a close, I’d like to share lessons that I learned about preparedness and the human spirit after 9/11. I am an intern at Stemp Systems, working with CEO Morris Stemp and Marketing Manager Beverly Wachtel. While I participate in Stemp’s marketing efforts, I’m learning how Stemp helps its clients…
Stemp Systems – What an Animal!
If your company was an animal, what animal would it be? And why? Think about it. Does your company dive in and convert prospects to customers like a pelican? Or is your company easy to excite and loyal like a dog? These are some of the responses that were solicited when Mardy Sitzer asked these…
Team Orange Goes Green
Reduce, reuse, recycle. Stemp Systems is living by the three “R”s as we do our part to preserve the environment. You would expect an IT company to recycle its own electronics. But did you know that Stemp Systems recycles the old electronic equipment that we replace for our clients? Clients can drop off equipment, send…
Are YOU Prepared for a HIPAA Audit?
The long-anticipated launch of the Office for Civil Rights’ (OCR’s) random HIPAA Compliance Audit Program began in December 2011, and even small medical practices are being targeted. In May 2012, a two-physician Cardiology Practice was fined $100,000! Are you implementing appropriate HIPAA safeguards in your medical practice? As a Provider, you were warned back in…
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Starting Over With a New EHR System
When to Start Over Is your medical practice considering starting over with a new EHR system? Studies have shown an increase in dissatisfaction with EHRs over the course of time, being caused by a variety of factors, as we discussed in last week’s blog post. A 2012 study of 300 prospective EHR buyers by KLAS…
Continue Reading »Growing Dissatisfaction with EHRs
Studies Confirm Dissatisfaction It comes as no surprise, to those working in and with Health IT, that studies are finding many providers are not happy using Electronic Health Records (EHR) systems. Several studies have shown dissatisfaction with EHR systems is on the rise. A survey of 4,279 clinicians was conducted between March 2010 and December…
Continue Reading »Keeping Your Business Up When The Cloud Crashes
Harsh weather, demand overload, technical malfunction, viruses, and hackers can all knock out the cloud. Thousands of cloud users were affected by outages in the past year. While in most cases there is nothing you can do but wait it out, there are some actions your business can take to minimize the damage caused when…
Continue Reading »The Cloud Crashed – Again: Understanding “The Cloud”
2012 was a year in which the cloud crashed – several times – bringing down a host of hosted services. And this trend is continuing in 2013. What are hosted services? What actually happens when the cloud crashes? And what does this mean for you? What are cloud hosted services? “A hosted service is a…
Continue Reading »Are YOU Prepared for a HIPAA Audit?
The dreaded Office for Civil Rights’ (OCR’s) random HIPAA Compliance Audit Program is in full swing, and even small medical practices are being targeted. In May 2012, a two-physician Cardiology Practice was fined $100,000! Are you implementing appropriate HIPAA safeguards in your medical practice? You were warned As a Provider, you were warned back in…
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