Event Summary - IT Solution Strategies for Health Clinic

In partnership with Microquest (http://bit.ly/au2kRa), the SSI Solutions Edmonton team hosted its first industry focused luncheon today entitled "IT Solution Strategies for Health Clinics".

Held at Edmonton's beautiful Fort Edmonton Park, this information session was tailored to Clinic Managers and Physicians who are currently using the Healthquest EMR system. Graham Aberg (SSI Solutions) and Kim Brown (Microquest) presented on essential IT and EMR software elements required to successfully run a clinic, and specifically compared the SSI and Microquest joint offering to that being offered by the POSP group. Special guest Rob Heron (KRP LLP) also discussed the financial and tax implications of IT decisions pertaining to health clinics.

We were very fortunate and thankful, to the team from Microquest who assisted in organizing the event. This strong partnership not only gives us a competitive advantage but provides reliable and cost effective options for the Clinic community. We are proud to have a partnership that delivers decisive information and is capable of delivering what is promised.

Please check out some photos from the event at http://bit.ly/94ni4g

Internet Bandwidth

The date is 1985; long distance is .60 per minute. You are talking to your grandparent and your parents say “make it quick, its long distance”. I am sure everyone can relate. Whether you are on a cell phone or business internet or at home, the same thing is happening today with our Internet costs. Telco’s had to replace that revenue and continue to gouge us on the usage. I only have to ask why at home Telco’s allow 100’s of gigabytes of transfer and at business's they charge over $2 per gigabyte? They are the same lines! Being is that in Canada we pay over 20 times what other countries pay means we should have some sort of management over this other than the CRTC which doesn’t seem to know what technology is let alone govern it.

Does anyone else feel this pain and have an opinion?

Alex Webb
CEO
SSI Solutions

Industry Trends

One of the things I love most about my job is staying tuned-in to the IT industry and adjusting our business model to be the most value to businesses. Most of the past decade has been about standardizing IT infrastructure to enable line-of-business apps to run smoothly. Disaster Recovery and proactive management have dominated IT conversations. With end user technology slowing down and standardized infrastructure solutions becoming a simple line item on a proposal, the industry has placed far more focus on lower cost CPU utilization by using shared server recourses and calling it the “cloud”. Now depending on who you ask the cloud may be a server or it may be an application served up over the Internet. Regardless of what it is, it should mean a reduction of cost from having on an on premise server. The thought is now shifting from who can sell and support a server to who can I trust with my data and systems. Over the next 5 years we will see infrastructure costs go down that will allow business to transfer some of that budget over to better business apps, productivity apps and communication apps of which all achieve a better bottom line.

Alex Webb
CEO
SSI Solutions

Why Cloud Computing Makes Sense for the SMB Market

Two of the largest growth areas in the IT sector are Cloud Computing and Virtualization. The reasons are simple, ROI is fast, TCO is less, uptime is higher, remote access to your systems are easier and it is Green. SSI Solutions has made significant investments in training, upgrading our data center and adopting it into our core culture. We currently host 25% of our overall server count in the cloud. If someone told me 3 years ago that 25% of your clients servers will be hosted I would have laughed. When a technology makes sense you want to tell the world because so much of what come into the IT industry dead ends and is wasteful.

Alex Webb - CEO