Cloud Computing Services

Customized Cloud Solutions & Application Hosting

Businesses and medical offices are dependent upon computer networks for diagnostics, treatment, record keeping, billing and other important tasks that keep their company running smoothly. Downtime is disruptive and threatens patient care and customer service. The problem is that keeping things running smoothly – and, in many cases, running at all – takes significant expertise.

Great strides in telecommunications and information technology has made "cloud computing" – the relocation of most of the hardware and software to an off-site operations center – accessible to medical professionals. Prevalent has refined the concept for the specialized world of the sole practitioner and small to midsized medical offices and businesses.

Benefits of Prevalent Cloud Technology

Low Cost: Prevalent requires little upfront cost, no server purchase, no software purchase and an unlimited IT department there to support you with all of your needs.

Reliability: Our systems are redundant, our staff is knowledgeable and on the job 24/7/365. Our uptime guarantee is 99 percent, which equates to an annual downtime of only a few minutes. We consistently upgrade our infrastructure with the latest in technology and perform a tremendous level of preventative maintenance. Small issues are caught long before they blossom into big problems – and long before they would have come to light if the equipment all was in the customer's office.

Compliance: HIPAA and other regulations include demanding electronic privacy and security requirements. We have experts that ensure your office technology and systems are in compliance.

Disaster Recovery Planning: The redundancy built into our networks – including daily and weekly backups -- offers the highest level of stability in the industry. The system is designed to withstand major problems and, if systems do go down, to facilitate fast restoration. This level of crisis performance can not be replicated in a self-contained small office network.

Security: In a cloud scenario, desktops are simply dummy terminals whose main task is to interface with users. All of the actual computing and data storage – and hence most of the risk – takes place at Prevalent's operations center. For this reason, the key task of protecting the system from spyware, viruses and other threats are carried out at our operations center.

In a cloud computing system, there's a significant workload shift. Local computers no longer have to do all the heavy lifting when it comes to running applications. The network of computers that make up the cloud handles them instead. Hardware and software demands on the user's side decrease. The only thing the user's computer needs to be able to run is the cloud computing system's interface software, which can be as simple as a Web browser, and the cloud's network takes care of the rest.

There's a good chance you've already used some form of cloud computing. If you have an e-mail account with a Web-based e-mail service like Hotmail, Yahoo! Mail or Gmail, then you've had some experience with cloud computing. Instead of running an e-mail program on your computer, you log in to a Web e-mail account remotely. The software and storage for your account doesn't exist on your computer -- it's on the service's computer cloud.