MIMI Medical was created by Julie Slaton in a situation described above. Mrs. Slaton was asked those very questions in the brink of a family emergency and when she could not answer those questions a light bulb clicked and MIMI Medical was created. Defined as a personal medical records software company, MIMI Medical began as a generic excel spreadsheet with documentation and medical history being complied by Mrs. Slaton for her mother.

After getting noticed by Crestwood and Huntsville Hospital, Mrs. Slaton sat down with a team of medical professionals to determine how she would properly arrange her new found idea in a way for physicians to readily identify and gather vital information, such as allergies, chronic conditions, current conditions, etc. for clientele. After such essential information, Mrs. Slaton revised her creation and MIMI began to grow so large that Mrs. Slaton could no longer handle distribution of her product. So she hired a company to develop the program and three and half years later on March 12th 2012 MIMI Medical was ordained its own consumer software company.

Now that MIMI Medical is well on its way establishing itself as a national and international medical necessity to handle health history and prescription information for all ages, Mrs. Slaton sought out to improve and enhance her company website. She received a recommendation for Interweave Technologies from a counterpart who has previously worked with the company and he suggested that Interweave Technologies would be the proper solution for what she had in mind. After receiving contact information, Mrs. Slaton set a meeting with our team of professionals to reconstruct her website and after a plan was put into motion she was very pleased with the results and stress free process.

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Mrs. Slaton had this to say about Interweave Technologies,
“Interweave Technologies has made me feel very fortunate and being able to work with them has left me worry free! Working closely with their team of professionals putting together the different pages, the site map, how the website flowed and the overall appearance of the site has gotten me A LOT of compliments. Also, how professional it is, easy to navigate and receive information…I highly recommend Interweave Technologies for anyone who is looking to either build a product or website.”

Mrs. Slaton’s MIMI Medical has had increasing S.E.M results of about 900%, which is an excellent escalation of advertised based traffic to her site. Our goal is to utilize S.E.M to promote relevant traffic and therefore enlarge her business and revenue for her company!

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Penetration tests simulate an actual attack against your company and its data.  The security analysts that conduct the test have an intricate understanding of hacking methodologies and how these techniques can be leveraged into complete ownership of a server and or network.     This knowledge gives them the ability to dig through your systems one step at a time and identify any and all security flaws.    Once the test is complete your company will receive a comprehensive report detailing your vulnerabilities.   We recommend a follow up scan of your network every six months to ensure proper security protocols remain in place.   

Top 5 Reasons To Purchase A Penetration Test

1.       Prevent financial loss from a breach.

2.       Protect your reputation.

3.       Protect your customers and brand.

4.       Track compliance and standards progress.

5.       Gain critical insight into your company’s security flaws. 

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Search Engine Marketing, most commonly referred to as SEM, is a method of internet marketing that includes the promotion of websites by increasing their visibility in search engine results pages (SERPs) through optimization and advertising. Research shows that as of 2006, SEM was rising much faster than conventional advertising and even other frequencies of online marketing.

Because of the multifaceted technology, a secondary ‘search marketing agency’ market has progressed. Some vendors have difficulty understanding the complexities of search engine marketing and choose to rely on other companies to manage their search marketing and Interweave Technologies can be that solution for you! With our team of advanced SEM professionals we can increase the amount of traffic to your website, which results in increased business and sales for your company.

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Many customers have asked me whether they should hire (internal) IT personnel versus outsourcing. When is a company too small or too large to outsource their support? Why not just hire internal personnel?

First, let’s look at just a few of the benefits of IT Outsourcing:

• Reduced Overhead. With outsourcing, you only pay for an IT professional when you need it and can keep personnel costs down. The cost of hiring an IT professional includes not only salary and benefits, but also continued training – which is both expensive and time consuming.
• Scalability. With outsourced IT support, you have access to a team of IT professionals with expertise on a wide variety of IT issues – from networking to software, security to communications.
• Business Efficiency. You can focus on building your business while your IT professionals focus on your IT.
• Proactive Service means Reduced Cost. By maintaining the health of your IT environment, your overall costs are greatly reduced.

Many companies that outsource their IT functions prefer to use Managed Services Agreements. Simply put, a Managed Services Agreement provides a defined level of service at a specified cost. Any service that falls outside of the defined level is typically provided at a reduced hourly cost. Managed Services Agreements provide many benefits, including:

• Cost Predictability. Companies can budget their IT expense by fixed monthly fees that cover monitoring, predictive maintenance, unlimited remote support, and on-site support as specified in the services agreement.
• Reduced Costs. As issues are detected and fixed – many times through proactive remote monitoring – unnecessary outages are avoided. This eliminates costly service calls, as well as reduced hardware failure and data loss.
• Increased Productivity. When you and your staff have a stable and secure technical environment, overall efficiency and productive are greatly increased.
• Alignment of IT with Business Goals – Through quarterly review, we can make recommendations for the planning and use of technology to maximize your IT investment to benefit your business.

Many large companies prefer Managed Services, however many small and medium business are also moving that direction. This is largely due to the increasing complexity of technology, as well as increased dependency on technology for business.

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Bryant Dental makes going to the dentist even more enjoyable

Integrated Audio/Video Adds Value to Patient Care

Providing better patient care is a continuing focus for Dr. Forrest Bryant and his associates. Their dedication includes assisting their patients in maintaining good dental hygiene and understanding how dentistry relates to their overall health.

To improve patient education at the Decatur office, Dr. Forrest Bryant of Bryant Dentistry recently added a combination television/monitor to every exam room. This enables Dr. Bryant and his staff to provide detailed information about procedures and show patients X-rays and other documents.

“Understanding dental procedures provides a twofold benefit” says Dr. Bryant, “Not only does it increase confidence in the procedure by explaining the steps involved, but it can also emphasize the importance of continued dental maintenance – both at home and in the dental office.”

An Improved Patient Experience

An added benefit is the improved patient experience. It gives patients an option to be entertained through the viewing of local cable channels. “I am passionate about helping people feel confident about their smile and part of that is having a pleasant dental experience,” says Dr. Bryant, “These systems provide entertainment to the patients during any wait times. This can greatly decrease anxiousness about dental procedures – especially for children. A positive experience can have a positive impact on dental health.”

Interweave Technologies provided a technology partner to assist with each stage of the pro­cess. From the initial consultation of technology to installation and integration, Interweave provided the technical expertise needed to deliver a quality solution, within the necessary budget and timeframe.

About Bryant Dentistry

With locations in Decatur, Huntsville and Madison, Bryant Dentistry is a leading provider of traditional, compassionate dental care to North Alabama. In addition to caring for patients in north Alabama, Dr. Bryant also regularly travels to Belize to help remote villages obtain dental care. Read more at http://www.forrestbryant.com/.

Interweave’s Role in the audio/visual project

• Product Consultation
• Product Sourcing
• Cabling prior to install
• Product Installation
• Product Integration

More Information

• To see more case studies of how Interweave clients are successfully using technology to lower costs, increase profits and save time, visit: Interweave Case Studies
• To learn more about Dr. Forrest Bryant or Bryant Dentistry, visit: ForrestBryant.com

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When you ask most non-technical peo­ple about cyber secu­rity the answer they almost always give will involve viruses and mal­ware, but to expe­ri­enced IT peo­ple those things are the least of what they have to worry about. To peo­ple on the front lines of cyber secu­rity, pen­e­tra­tion con­cerns are para­mount and are gen­er­ally unre­lated to the viruses, mal­ware and other things that a gen­eral con­sumer has to worry about.

Pen­e­tra­tion con­cerns revolve around two dif­fer­ent types of security breaches. The first of these is an inva­sion from an out­side source, but even these can take on dif­fer­ent forms. For instance, the attack­ing party might have limited – or even zero – knowl­edge of your sys­tems. This means that they would basi­cally be try­ing to break into your sys­tem from scratch. At the other end of this spec­trum, they may have gained access to source code, net­work lay­outs or may even have some pass­words. This could have hap­pened from a mali­cious or unin­ten­tional leak and sim­ply makes the job of the hacker that much easier.

In either case, the end result can be dev­as­tat­ing to a com­pany and can lead to loss of data, includ­ing impor­tant com­pany data or, more impor­tantly, the infor­ma­tion of peo­ple who have done busi­ness with the com­pany. Probably the most famous is the recent intrusion on the Sony net­work in which hackers gained access to the account infor­ma­tion of over 100 million cus­tomers.

One of the best ways to pre­vent this type of attack is to hire cyber secu­rity pro­fes­sion­als to secure your sys­tem and even hack it to reveal vul­ner­a­bil­i­ties. With this method of hacking, pos­si­bil­i­ties are explored in dif­fer­ent lev­els, some­times known as black, white or gray box tests. A black box test assumes that the attacker has no knowl­edge of your net­work lay­outs, source code or pass­words; a white box test assumes they know almost every­thing about these areas and a gray box is assum­ing that they have some knowl­edge of your sys­tems and pass­words. The gray box test is usu­ally what would result when the attack is from a lower or mid-level employee who either feeds his lim­ited knowl­edge of the sys­tem to the attacker or who is con­duct­ing the attack himself.

Inter­weave Tech­nolo­gies can assist in your cyber secu­rity ini­tia­tives whether you are in the mar­ket to hire a pen­e­tra­tion tester or are a small busi­ness look­ing sim­ply to enhanc­e your secu­rity.   The secu­rity pro­fes­sion­als at Inter­weave have an in depth knowl­edge of cyber secu­rity and can assist your com­pany in pre­vent­ing attack­ers from get­ting into your net­work and gain­ing access to your con­fi­den­tial information.  

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The Federal Accelerated Depreciation Program will be reduced from $139,000 to $25,000 for 2013.

Just as a business grows, so must its communications capabilities. Although companies upgrade their computers, they don’t upgrade their most often used communication vehicles in their business – their phone system.

Here are 6 easy reasons to Upgrade Your Phone System:

• Phone system is over 5 years old.
  Chances are the technology is outdated, and your needs have surpassed the system’s capacity.
• You are using copper-lines (i.e. analog phone system).
  Even AT&T is disusing its copper network, stating that an all-IP network is best.
• Dropped Calls / Busy signals
  Stable infrastructure, redundancy, and “bursting” mean no busy signals or dropped calls
• No Multi-office or Mobile-user support
  All extensions are “local” – even in another state, at home, or at the mall
• High phone bills
  Using an IP network with a VoIP system can easily cut phone costs in half
• New features provide competitive Edge
  Improve productivity and customer satisfaction with auto-attendants, “find me/Follow me” and other extended capabilities

Many businesses pay more than they need to for phone service – simply because they aren’t aware that there are better options.

Interweave Technologies can Help!

We bring you Star2Star, an innovative, award-winning Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP)
communications system. Star2Star’s patent-pending VoIP technology delivers quality, reliability, and
features that are equal to any phone system — at a fraction of the price.

Star2Star Features:

• Free calling between branch offices,
• Unlimited Voice mail
• Find-Me/ Follow-Me Call Forwarding
• Flexible Call Routing
• Auto Attendants
• Free Conference Calling
• Voice Mail to Email
• You can even eliminate your desk phone (Make your Cell phone an Extension!)

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Errors Cost More than Lives

According to a recent study in the Journal of Health Care Finance from Wolters Kluwer, medical errors in the US may be costing up to $1 trillion each year. EMR integration can help to greatly decrease simple mistakes, such as incorrect prescriptions. In one study, patient mortality actually decreased by 48 percent in a three year period following EMR implementation.  In another study, the implementation of a CPOE (Computerized Physician Order Entry) System decreased the mortality rate by 20 percent.

Although not all mistakes can be fixed using IT solutions like EMR and CPOE, a large percentage of errors – such as order entry and drug interaction errors – are clearly preventable. And each error that is prevented can save lives and help bring down the overall cost of care.  As the number of errors are reduced, so are the number of malpractices suits which in turn will decrease the costs associated with these events (i.e., malpractice insurance rates).  These financial savings to the provider and their networks will help reduce the overall costs of health care.

In addition to minimizing expense, it is important to make smarter use of our medical resources. The share of medical costs of GDP (Gross Domestic Product) is estimated to increase from the current 18% to 25% by 2037 as the baby boomers reach their seventies and eighties. This makes it even more critical to increase efficiencies in our medical practices. And for our medical system to work at its most efficient, the EMR integration is going to be vital.

Additional Resources, Additional Benefits

EMR solutions empower physicians to utilize efficient computerized solutions for patient care.  Since to “err is human” the use of EMRs and other computerized decision support systems provides access to information resources that provide an additional layer of checks and balances to protect against error and waste.

Technology can dramatically increase the general efficiency of office staff.  A primary example of this is the communication between office and medical staff. Doctors are automatically notified of a patient’s arrival status, the return of lab results, etc., without disrupting the current patient encounter; in addition support staff can receive communication from the doctor real-time to enable them to schedule follow up appointments, prepare prescriptions or medical instructions, etc.  Regardless of the information requirements, the seamless communication enabled by most EMR solutions greatly increases staff productivity, as well as the quality of the visit itself. When physicians embrace technology as a partner they can deliver quality healthcare and true patient satisfaction. 

Making the Move to EMR

As America’s medical system continues to leverage EMR technologies and streamlined processes, this will result in huge benefits including the elimination of many errors, reduction in medical costs, and a higher level of care.  The individual doctor’s office is now on the front line, and should consider an immediate move to EMR. There are many different programs out there – be careful, be choosy and ask a lot of questions. In the end, integrating an EMR based system will help the medical practitioner and the American medical system as a whole.

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It is odd to think that such an ancient idea could hold water when it comes to technology in the 21st century but it does. Just like a building, any system is only going to be as good and reliable as the foundation upon which it is built. This is as true today as it was five thousand years ago, and the results of a weak or faulty infrastructure can be just as devastating.

Modern IT and computer systems have specific requirements when it comes to associated hardware, software and cabling, and unless all of these things are developed in conjunction with each other any one of these could take down or damage the entire system. That is why the basic infrastructure of your cabling system is just as important as any other part of the system. It is much less glamorous though, and so receives very little attention from people who do not have specific knowledge of how to properly set up the most basic parts of your infrastructure. You could decide to save a few hundred dollars on quality cables and installation only to come to the realization that your desire to save a few hundred bucks has cost you tens of thousands.

Cabling concerns stretch across platforms, from telephone, video, security, riser, fiber optic or any type of specialty cabling that your business might demand. Do not skimp when you are building this part of your infrastructure – there can be nothing more aggravating than realizing that you have spent hundreds of man hours and thousands of dollars on a system that is either poorly installed, or has had inferior equipment put into place or both.

This can affect more than just your online and IT presence, of course, although it includes routers and servers it also encompasses switches, workstations connectivity and printers and other physical machinery. A perfect example of this is not from a computer system, but from a skating rink sound system. The skating rink had the system professionally installed, up to a point, but had the main signal cable run underground by one of their own employees – who failed to realize that he needed to run a shielded cable from the power amps to the actual control station of the DJ. The result was a world class sound system that sounded like a garage band with twenty year old equipment; the entire system failed because one single cable was out of spec, and it was the one which this company decided they didn’t need help installing.

If there is any question about whether or not your direct employees have the knowledge or skill to build the cabling infrastructure that your company needs, or to update it to modern standards, it is essential that you hire a company that specializes in this type of installation. You should be able to expect years of trouble free service from your basic infrastructure, and that is one of the reasons why it is so important that you take this part of your business extremely seriously. Without proper installation and maintenance something as simple as a bad cable can cause huge delays, lost revenue and customers who will go elsewhere when you are not able to fill their needs.

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Penetration concerns revolve around two different areas of concern. The first of these is an invasion from an outside source, but even these can take on different forms. For instance, the attacking party might have no knowledge or the most basic knowledge of your systems. This means that they would basically be trying to break into your system from scratch. At the other end of this spectrum, thye may have gained access to source code, network layouts or may even have some passwords. This could have happened from a malicious or unintentional leak and simply makes the job of the hacker that much easier.

The other area of concern involves an actual employee. Aside from simply giving the attacker the information, the employee himself (or herself) may be the one who is trying to penetrate areas which are normally not accessible to that employee.

In either case, the end result can be devastating to a company and can lead to loss of data, including important company data or, more importantly, the information of people who have done business with the company. The recent attack on the Sony network in which they lost service and the attackers gained access to the financial information of a large number of customers is probably the most famous of this type of attack.

One of the best ways to prevent this type of attack on your systems is to hire someone to do it to you on purpose; in this way you can gauge the strengths and weaknesses of your systems and make the appropriate changes before someone attacks you for real.

In this method of attack, all possibilities are explored in different levels, sometimes known as black, white or gray box tests. A black box test assumes that the attacker has no knowledge of your network layouts, source code or passwords; a white box test assumes they know almost everything about these areas and a gray box is assuming that they have some knowledge of your systems and passwords. The gray box test is usually what would result when the attack is from a lower or mid-level employee who either feeds his limited knowledge of the system to the attacker or who is conducting the attack himself.

Penetration tests are absolutely the best way to ensure that your system is as secure as possible, and should be done on a regular basis. IT security as regards penetration attacks, just as it involves viruses, is a back and forth procedure between people with malicious intent and people who are trying to protect the businesses information, and a constant struggle is in play as they develop and defeat security measures and counter measures.

Black box testing is obviously the hardest to do properly, but in any of the three attack protocols there are several avenues which the attackers will try to exploit; these include information and data controls, fraud and social engineering control levels and computer and telecommunications networks which include wireless and mobile devices and physical security of access controls and brick and mortar infrastructure.

Penetration tests are the best way to find and fix weaknesses in your system, and it is usually most effective to hire an outside expert to conduct these tests so that there is no chance of corruption of the test itself by employees who for whatever reason may not properly perform the tests. If you have not considered running a penetration test to judge your system, it is time to consider that option – if you wait too long, it may be too late, and that lapse of security could set back your business years or destroy it completely.

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