If you use Windows software in your practice, please read this.
In less than a week thousands of veterinary practices in the UK are going to have some major technology problems as, on January 14th 2020, Microsoft is killing Windows 7, Outlook 2010, Exchange 2010, Small Business Server 2011 and Windows Server 2008. All of this could be devastating for your practice. The above software is […]
Free Cyber Awareness CPD for UK Vets
We’ll get to the point quickly… here at Veterinary IT Services we want to increase cyber awareness within the veterinary sector. To help us achieve this we have decided to offer cyber awareness CPD sessions, either as face to face seminars or webinars for free to all vets in the UK. Okay, we admit that […]
How to access your £5k IT grant (and how your practice can benefit)
Have you heard about the new government recovery grant? The government has announced that it has put aside £20 million of funding to go to small and medium sized businesses like yours! Veterinary practices will have access to grants from £1,000 to £5,000 to help them access new technology and other equipment in an attempt […]
New Wells Veterinary Practice
Shepton Vets, a well-established but fast growing veterinary practice, realised there was a significant demand for small animal services within the region of Wells. It was therefore decided that a new state of the art facility was to be built. From the subset Shepton Vets required the new site to: Have adequate connectivity to support […]
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 […]
