Red River’s Impact on Our Clients: Healthcare IT Services

2021 saw the healthcare IT industry on a dramatic rise. Patients are increasingly demanding access to their medical services online — whether they want to manage their billing and prescriptions, or they want to engage in telehealth services. General practitioners, psychiatrists, specialists and therapists are now all operating online. In turn, this has increased the need for secure, stable healthcare IT services.

Managed service providers — such as Red River — can help. Let’s take a deeper look at healthcare IT solutions and managed IT services for healthcare.

MSPs and Healthcare IT Solutions

In years past, the healthcare industry was hesitant to engage with new technology. It made sense; any clinical settings operated on older technologies and legacy solutions — because these were known to be stable, reliable and secure. Today, the healthcare industry is moving quite fast to adopt new technology. Managed services providers (MSPs) can help.

From small clinics to large healthcare facilities, healthcare entities can leverage MSPs to hit the ground running with new, proven technology. MSPs are able to audit healthcare organizations to determine the best solutions for the organizations — along with helping the organization implement and maintain these solutions.

It’s simply not feasible for most healthcare companies to analyze, research and maintain their own systems. Many companies don’t want to have to maintain their own internal IT departments, and they don’t want to keep continuously abreast of new knowledge. Healthcare IT consulting services can help companies get the best of modern technology without having to invest a prohibitive amount of time or money.

Red River for Healthcare IT

Red River is proud to support a wide array of healthcare IT clients and healthcare IT solutions. Red River can provide best-in-class IT services for healthcare — so healthcare organizations can concentrate on providing the best services and solutions to their clients and patients. With Red River, organizations can:

• Explore products, such as MS Teams, which offer internal HIPAA compliance. In healthcare, it’s important to keep data consolidated and protected. MS Teams, MS Azure and MS Office 365 can all work together to ensure that data and documents are aggregated, encrypted and given the appropriate permissions. This vastly reduces the chances that important patient/client data could be breached.
• Improve outcomes for both healthcare providers and their patients. Information collection, analysis and aggregation; data management and patient security; organizational management and improvement; and the long-term growth of telemedicine — these are all areas in which new healthcare IT solutions may be required. With Red River, organizations are able to get the technology they need to maintain this type of long-term industry change.
• Optimize infrastructure with private LTE networks or SD-WAN technology. In healthcare, hybrid infrastructures are increasingly becoming common, so healthcare entities are able to both protect client/patient information while also leveraging the power of the cloud. With private LTE or software-defined networking, organizations are able to achieve better infrastructure connectivity.
• Proactively respond to security threats. With functions such as dark web monitoring, Red River can notify a healthcare organization if its data has been breached. Furthermore, advanced, best-in-class security systems can be used to alert organizations when security issues occur — thereby mitigating damage faster.

With Red River, healthcare companies are able to get a full-service IT company, which provides all the resources of a full IT company at a fraction of the cost.

Healthcare IT Case Studies with Red River

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Red River successfully deployed wireless LAN (WLAN) solutions for doctors and nurses in need of reliable internet services. These internet services were deployed across remote testing locations and temporary hospitals — thereby making it far easier for doctors and nurses to treat patients. In addition to ensuring fast, stable connections, Red River ensured that these connections were also private and secure.

While the COVID-19 pandemic introduced unique healthcare IT challenges, they are not entirely apart from the challenges felt by healthcare companies every day. Across these remote testing locations and temporary hospitals, it was necessary to have a secure and reliable internet solution. Red River can provide reliable internet services to any healthcare clinic anywhere, including those in rural areas or those that otherwise struggle with access.

Does your organization need to manage its healthcare IT? Are you exploring new healthcare IT options — or trying to fine-tune and optimize the healthcare you already have? Connect with the experts at Red River to learn more about the best options for you. At Red River, we can help you explore a multitude of new healthcare IT solutions — and implement them with minimal disruption.