Top 5 Ways Hackers Access your Veterinary Practice

“How did the hacker even get into my practice systems?” It’s a question we get asked a lot. Most owners or practice managers don’t think that their practice would ever be a target, so cyber security is never really on their radar. This, coupled with the huge amount of data and emotive nature of the […]

Merging to Create a New Veterinary Practice

Drove Veterinary Hospital required us to setup the new Ridgeway Farm site, which is designed to be a state of the art facility to replace two existing smaller sites; Moredon and Taw Hill. As the site was a newly registered address and limited to a specific form of connectivity, this was a challenging project. It […]

How to protect your Practice from internet outage.

Has your practice ever experienced an internet outage? It’s more common than you would think, and we’ve seen pretty much every variant of causes; local and carrier equipment failure, damage to the local exchange, billing issues, lines being cut by a rogue engineer, interference from local building work and believe it or not, we even […]

Upgrade: the risk old equipment poses to your veterinary practice

You’ve got a staggering amount of equipment in your veterinary practice; Ultrasounds, digital x-ray imaging, IV pumps, anaesthesia machines, sterilizers, MRI equipment and defibrillators (the list just goes on and on). The likelihood is that when you read the word ‘equipment’ your mind jumped to these examples before you even saw the list.   If any of these is in desperate need of […]

7 Ways to Protect your Veterinary Practice from Cyber Attacks

Cyber security. It’s not exactly the sexiest subject, and as a Vet or Practice Manager its probably not your specific area of expertise. It might even be a little bit intimidating. We get asked a lot about how to protect veterinary practices from cyber attacks, so we’ve put together a list of the top 7 […]

Drove Infrastructure Refresh

A combination the 2020 Problem (Microsoft making a number of their Operating Systems end of life) fast approaching as well as some ageing hardware, meant that Drove understood that as part of their technology roadmap an infrastructure refresh was required. As a large veterinary organisation with a hospital providing 24/7 facilities to clients as well […]

Communication during a pandemic

In March this year everything changed, we went into a nationwide lockdown and the veterinary profession, along with everyone else had to make adjustments to the way in which we work, live and communicate with those around us. This has continued later int he year at the begining of November the nation goes into lockdown […]

5 Ways To Simplify Daily Tasks

Sometimes we get caught up in the day to day rushing around, completing mundane tasks and getting the job done. The things that we do every day often become part of a routine, so when examining what we can do to simplify daily tasks and improve efficiencies it can be hard to see where changes […]

Remote Working: Getting the Basics Right for your Practice

Has the announcement of another national lockdown got you thinking about remote working for your practice? The government announcement on 5th November was not entirely surprising, businesses across the UK were once again asked to adapt the way that they work to keep their employees and the wider community safe.   But for many Veterinary […]