Sectors · Medical practices

The patient record accessible at 8am. Every day.

A frozen screen in the middle of a consultation, an inaccessible calendar, records on a disk that has never been tested: that is what we make disappear. AlpenData manages the IT of medical and paramedical practices in French-speaking Switzerland.

Real situations

What really disrupts a practice

No theory: here is what we encounter in practices in French-speaking Switzerland, and what we do about it.

A frozen workstation in the middle of a consultation

What we find

The screen freezes, the file won't open, and the waiting room fills up. Every minute of IT waiting is experienced in front of the patient.

What we do

A continuously maintained estate, monitored workstations and support that knows your practice. Critical incidents are handled within 4 business hours, and scheduled interventions take place outside consultation hours.

The patient record on a server no one is watching

What we find

Years of patient records sit on a server or a NAS installed long ago. The backup "runs", but no one has ever tested a restore.

What we do

Automatic backups with regular, documented restore testing. The day a disk fails, you know exactly what is recoverable, and in how much time.

Healthcare practices, prime ransomware targets

What we find

Health data sells for a high price, and attackers know it: medical practices are frequent targets, often less protected than a typical SME.

What we do

Two-factor authentication, workstation hardening, monitored updates and backups disconnected from the network: an attack becomes much harder, and above all recoverable.

Hours on the phone for appointment reminders

What we find

Appointment reminders, invitations, documents to resend, forms to file: your assistant spends hours on tasks that always follow the same rules.

What we do

AlpenFlow automates reminders and invitations, files incoming documents and prepares recurring letters. First simple automation from CHF 1,999, a fixed price agreed before we start, without touching your business software.

Medical secrecy facing foreign clouds

What we find

Calendar, emails and documents often pass through American services, without anyone really having chosen so. For health data, that is an uncomfortable grey area.

What we do

For the services we operate, we favour Swiss hosting, notably with Infomaniak. You can tell your patients where their data is, and document it.

Staff change, access rights remain

What we find

Stand-ins, assistants in training, interns: accounts accumulate and no one knows anymore who has access to the patient records.

What we do

Clean handling of arrivals and departures, regular access reviews and up-to-date documentation. Every access to the patient record is known and justified.

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First step

Consultations without IT interruptions

David Cunha, cofondateur et directeur technique d'AlpenData

A first one-hour conversation about your practice: workstations, backups, access, calendar. You leave with concrete recommendations, with no commitment.