IT Support for Medical & Dental Practices in Nokomis
Medical and dental practices carry IT obligations other small businesses skip: HIPAA safeguards, an EHR whose uptime defines your day, and a security renewal questionnaire that grows every year. Simple IT SRQ specializes in independent practices - 4 to 60 providers - with real HIPAA paperwork, tested backups, and a tech who shows up before morning huddle.
What we deliver for medical & dental practices in Nokomis
Independent medical, Laurel / south Osprey
HIPAA-ready documentation, phone coverage that survives barrier-island weather (cellular backup + call-forwarding to personal devices), and an incident response that assumes the EHR vendor hotline has a 90-minute hold time.
Where we focus for this industry
- Written HIPAA Risk Assessment + Safeguards documentation refreshed annually
- EHR vendor coordination - we book the integration calls so you don't
- security documentation binder ready before your renewal questionnaire arrives
- Encrypted, off-site, quarterly-tested backups (most regulators ask for this)
- Two-factor authentication on every account that touches PHI
- Business Associate Agreements (BAAs) with every vendor that touches your data
Service area coverage in Nokomis
We serve Nokomis, Casey Key, Laurel, south Osprey, and the US-41 business corridor between Venice and Sarasota and the surrounding Nokomis metro for medical & dental practices IT needs. If your practice or office is in one of these areas, a Simple IT SRQ engineer can be there on-site the same day for urgent break-fix.
Common Nokomis landmarks and districts we support include Nokomis Beach, Casey Key, US-41 corridor, Albee Road, North Jetty Park.
Frequently asked — medical & dental practices
Do you sign a BAA?
Yes. We're a Business Associate under HIPAA and sign a BAA with every medical client before any work begins. We can also help you collect BAAs from your other vendors (EHR, billing, secure-messaging, document storage) - most practices we onboard discover at least one missing BAA in the first 60 days.
We use [EHR vendor] - do you know it?
Probably. We've worked alongside Dentrix, Eaglesoft, Open Dental, eClinicalWorks, Athenahealth, Practice Fusion, NextGen, Curve, and most of the imaging suites used in Sarasota and Manatee County. If your EHR is one we haven't touched, we'll be upfront and bill our learning hours at half rate.
What does HIPAA paperwork actually include?
A written Risk Assessment listing every system that touches PHI; the three Safeguards documents (Administrative, Physical, Technical); a Workforce Sanction Policy; an Incident Response runbook; an annual Workforce Training Acknowledgement log; signed BAAs with every applicable vendor. Most practices we audit have one or two of these - we deliver the full set.
How does ransomware risk affect a small practice?
A 5-provider practice that pays a ransom averages $48k–$120k all-in (ransom + downtime + breach reporting + insurance retention). We've never had a client pay a ransom because the path to ransomware in a typical practice - phished credentials + no MFA + flat network + missing backups - is closeable in a 2-week onboarding.
Can you sit through a state HIPAA audit with us?
Yes - for active managed-IT clients, audit-day attendance is included. We bring the binder, walk the surveyor through what's where, and answer the technical questions so your office manager doesn't have to.