7 reasons your dental practice should move to the Cloud

Grazed from DentistryIQ. Author: Trevor James.

“Companies that don’t take advantage of cloud computing will be in the minority in less than six years.” These words come straight from a recent article in Inc. magazine. Conversely, if your practice is considering a cloud-based computing system, you’ll be in the majority in 2020. Dental practices are not immune to this technological shift. Driven in part by the need for mobile computing and the use of electronic health records, more dental practices are moving to the cloud.

According to a study from consulting firm Emergent Research and financial software company Intuit, the percentage of U.S. small businesses using cloud computing will grow from 37% to nearly 80% during the next six years. SecurityWeek magazine reports: “In a study looking at how small and medium-sized businesses viewed security, privacy, and reliability in the cloud, 94% said their security had improved after adopting cloud applications…

The improvements included staying up-to-date with patches, better antispam filters, and up-to-date antivirus protection.”. If your practice is using old hardware and software, cloud computing can solve a host of IT problems, ranging from performance, reliability and compatibility issues, to capital expenditures, data integrity, and unexpected IT costs…

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