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⏳ Windows 10 Is Ending — What Small Health Care Organizations Need to Know (and Do)
On October 14, 2025, Microsoft will officially end support for Windows 10.
No more patches.
No more security updates.
No more compliance.
✅ Think Your Org’s Outbound Email Is Protected? 5 Quick Ways to Check
If you're a health care IT manager, director, or executive in a small organization, you've probably been sold on an email system that is "HIPAA-compliant."
You might have even been sold on how “seamless” it is — with no portals or passwords required.
Sounds great.
But behind that smooth sales pitch, there’s often a very costly gray area — and it's small organizations that are poised to pay the price.
Nintendo Switch Parental Controls: What Rural Health Care Organizations Should Know
If your facility has ever considered providing gaming consoles in waiting rooms or patient lounges, the Nintendo Switch is probably on your radar. We picked one up for testing because we wanted to evaluate two things: what parental controls are available out of the box, and whether it is possible to manage a Switch through a third-party MDM (Mobile Device Management) solution the way you might manage an iPad or Android tablet. Here is what we found.
🏥 Is Your Small Health Care Organization Still Running on “Small Business” IT — Without Realizing It?
You’re a small health care provider.
Maybe a rural hospital.
Maybe a behavioral health clinic.
Maybe a specialty outpatient center.
Your team might be 50–250 people. Your IT department? One person, maybe two or three — or even just a managed provider on-call.
🧾 3 Smart IT Budget Moves Every Small Health Care Organization Should Make Now — to Fund the Projects That Can’t Wait
In small health care organizations, IT is often just one person — and they’re juggling everything. Security, compliance, backups, devices, email... all while chasing down printers and resetting passwords.
And the reality is, most of these orgs don’t get enterprise resources — but are still expected to meet enterprise-level compliance.
🛑 Real Ransomware Attacks That Crushed Small Health Care Organizations — And How to Avoid Becoming the Next Headline
Small health care organizations are under attack. Literally.
While headlines often focus on massive hospital systems, ransomware attackers increasingly target small clinics, practices, and rural hospitals — because they know one thing:
Using Free Gmail & Hotmail Accounts for Your Health Care Organization IS a HIPAA Violation
IT compliance and cybersecurity for Critical Access Hospitals and rural health care organizations
"But we tell patients not to email us PHI..."
Spoiler: It doesn't matter. You're still liable.