The Application Migration Services provided by SINC involve enhancement of the current applications to newer versions or re-engineering the current applications with new technologies.

• We help organizations make decisions on migrating their legacy applications to the cloud.
• Our experts perform web-enabling of the legacy applications by using latest technologies such as ASP.NET, VB.NET, or C#, and databases such as SQL.
• SINC offers various solutions such as testing, maintenance, and quality control of Legacy Application Migration.

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There is no question that HIPAA impacts the way medical practices use and maintain computers. Therefore, practices should carefully consider how they can maintain their systems, procedures, and operations to comply with these industry standards. HIPAA compliance is necessary to ensure that you are operating in accordance with various HIPAA standards to protect your practice from unauthorized access to patient’s data,  government penalties, sanctions by your business partners, and/or complaints from patients.

For more than a decade, our technicians have worked with numerous clients to ensure HIPAA software and hardware compliance. We have the experience and expertise that most IT companies just do not have to service your business’s unique and extremely important needs.

HIPAA directly affects two significant computing issues: 1) The storage of information in computers, and 2) The sharing of electronic medical information with outside parties. For example, the storing of electronic patient medical records may pose a number of HIPAA problems, while exchanging emails containing patient info is also a matter of concern. In both cases, practices will need encryption, a way to verify the recipient or user of the information, and an effective security mechanism. Therefore, HIPAA affects almost every aspect of medical practices’ computer infrastructures.

Implications Of HIPAA

The actual act of complying with HIPAA will be a challenge for many practices. The scope of the requirements and the effects they will have on practices should be seriously reviewed and considered as you move forward in your practice.

We recommend having our experts perform the following actions:

• Inventory Current Computer Systems – Practices should inventory their current computer systems to assist in specifying and defining the scope of their HIPAA needs. Beyond practice management systems, practices should also be careful to identify any systems where identifiable patient information may be stored. Examples include transcription documents stored in word processing documents and patient information stored in contact management software (i.e., ACT, or Goldmine).
• Evaluate Current Systems for HIPAA Compliance – Carefully determine the abilities of the current system, and the software vendors’ intent to support HIPAA requirements. Be especially careful of products that probably cannot be upgraded to HIPAA compliance, such as products with old technology bases, companies that have been acquired, and products with declining user bases. Some practices have encountered serious problems with medical record storage issues.
• Staff Development – HIPAA requires that practices have a security officer to manage the information on computers. Since few practices have a designated staff person with adequate training, let SINC’s expert, certified technicians take out all of the worry of HIPAA software/hardware compliance for you.

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The internet is among the most pervasive inventions of all time. Businesses are becoming increasingly intertwined with it, which makes it increasingly essential for us to take proactive roles to protect our networks and computers from online dangers. While antivirus software goes a long way towards preventing problems, the more layers of protection your business has, the better.

Internet content filtering monitors Internet traffic and helps block external threats (such as viruses and spyware) but can also protect your network from internal threats such as employees inadvertently browsing potentially dangerous websites.

Internet content filtering can be performed at several levels, such as a hardware device installed between your Internet router and the rest of the network, or a piece of software like Microsoft ISA installed on a server, or software installed at the workstation level. Any of these options provide a greater level of protection than just relying on standard firewalls or antivirus software.

In addition, Internet content filtering can be configured to block specific sites or services that are not necessarily malicious but can result in decreased productivity. These settings can be customized to your business’s needs as well as provide reports of any attempts to visit blocked sites or access prohibited services.

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We highly recommend automating server management and maintenance with SINC.

All of our Maintenance packages include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Checking update packages for issues prior to being applied to servers and workstations and checked for issues
• Checking server access and user accounts to ensure only the newest and correct permissions are in place
• Updating and testing all firewall rules and testing router functions
• Checking backup logs and performing test restorations to combat data rot.
• Monitoring resource usage
• Checking and resolving hardware errors
• Removing unused applications have been removed
• Checking Disk integrity
• Confirming virus scans and addressing issues
• Reviewing event logs and addressing issues.

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User benefit: Freedom. Not only can you or your employees use a wireless-enabled computer in different locations around the home or office, they also can access email, websites, and other network services via wireless access points (often called “hot spots”) in airports, hotels, coffee shops, living rooms, and other places.

Business benefit: Wireless networking is an attractive alternative to installing costly, labor-intensive network cable. When your users can work wherever they need to be, they stay more productive.

SINC’s professional, certified technicians are available to help you set up your residential or business local area network to allow the sharing of Internet access, printers, and files across multiple computers. Networking between PCs, Macs, and Linux boxes offers users convenient options for remote access, file storage and backup, and printing to shared printers.

Based upon our extensive experience, we can assess, advise, and implement wireless networks with great performance and coverage. Our friendly technicians will be happy to set up a FREE consultation to determine how a wireless network might benefit you, enabling your home or business to run more efficiently.

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