8 Ways to Create Great First Impressions
First Impressions Matter: 8 Ways Veterinary Practices Can Create Great First Impressions Pet owners love their pets and want the best for them. Creating great first impressions can significantly impact whether a person trusts a veterinary clinic with the health and safety of their furry family member. A veterinary clinic should never lose sight of […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Future of Veterinary Appointment Bookings: 5 Tips to Improve Your Bookings
The veterinary profession of the future will not be easy in any way. Rather, it will be a setting where a group of well-trained and adequately compensated experts delivers high-quality medical treatment utilizing the most advanced technologies. Veterinary practices need to be vigilant in the medical aspect of their business. However, they will also need […]
3D Printing: Why Veterinarians Should Incorporate 3D Printing into their Practice
Due to its adaptability and potential for cost savings, 3D printing — also known as additive manufacturing — made a rapid impact on several industries. Among these industries, the discipline of veterinary medicine has recently focused on 3D printing. Since they are less expensive and can manufacture any shape, vets now use 3D printing to […]
