Episode Transcript
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Hi Everyone, welcome to this episode
of catch up with Cairo touch. I'm
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your host, Dr Brian Blast,
and my side kick co host is the
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wonderful Dr Tammy Howard. Well,
hello, thank you for having me.
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Thanks for coming along for the ride, Tammy. The last time I got
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together with Dr Tammy on a podcast
it was to announce our new cloud offering
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from Cairo touch. In that episode
we discussed our favorite items in the cloud.
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Mine are the reporting and Dashboards,
and Dr Tammy's are the updated design
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and and APP guidance. Check out
the full episode to hear more on them.
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At the beginning of that episode we
explained what quote the cloud is and
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its benefits. I'm really glad we
spent a few minutes doing that, as
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it appears we weren't the only ones
with cloud questions. Listener feedback was that
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their understanding of the cloud was foggy
at best. Oh please, don't put
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your day job. That's a good
chow. What better way to help our
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listeners get crystal clear on the cloud
then to bring Dr Tammy back to the
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microphone for more specifically the advantages of
Cloud Computing, Aka working in the cloud.
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To catch up our listeners the cloud
refers to software and services that run
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on the Internet instead of data that
is locally stored on your computer or server.
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In your practice, when people say
your data is in the cloud,
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it simply means it's stored remotely,
often on a system of servers. Apple,
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I cloud, Netflix, Yahoo,
mail, dropbox. Those are all
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examples of cloud services. Cairo touches
is also a cloud product, meaning your
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information is stored remotely and therefore can
be accessed anywhere, at any time and
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from any Internet connected device. Now
we're on the same page. Let's discuss
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by being in the cloud as advantageous. Let's do it. In doing my
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cloud research, the same five benefits
kept coming up. To help listeners deep
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in their understanding of not only what
the cloud is but how it can help
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them, I thought we'd go through
the five and discuss sounds like a good
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plan, in no particular order.
The first advantage is working in the cloud
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is flexible. This is perhaps the
most obvious benefit. Provided you have an
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Internet connection, cloud computing allows you
to work any time and from anywhere.
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For example, of imagine you are
online at Costco and you get to talking
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to the person in front of you. They mentioned really needing your care,
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rather than giving them Your Business Guard
and hoping they call you, pull out
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your phone and add them to your
schedule. Many docks would love the option
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of schedule patients while away from the
office. The Flexibility of cloud computing also
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allows staff to work remotely to catch
up on tasks outside the office. Number
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two on the list cloud computing offers
security. Data security is a big concern
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for chiropractors, or really any doctor, so this is an important benefit that
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tends to be downplayed. When your
information is stored locally, for example on
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your practices network server, you have
to worry about the physical security of that
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machine. Fire, floods, breakins
and theft all have the potential to threaten
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or destroy your data. When your
information is then cloud there's nothing for disasters
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to wipe out or for thieves to
steal because your data is stored elsewhere.
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Well, I guess thieves could steal
your machine, but it would not contain
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your practice data as long as you're
using a cloud computing solution. Talking about
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keeping your data safe. Number three
is disaster recovery via frequent backups. Do
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to the nature of how data is
stored in the cloud, backups happen instantaneously
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and continuously. Not only is everything
being backed up frequently, but that backup
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typically is housed on multiple servers in
a climate controlled data facility equipped with uninterrupted
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power supplies. It's basically layers of
security on top of layers of security.
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Should there be a disaster at your
office that destroys all of your computers,
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you'll still be able to access your
practice management software via any other Internet connected
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device. Can I read you the
last two? Sure thing. Number four,
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never miss an update. The beauty
of cloud computing is that the servers
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are off premise, right out of
sight, out of your hair. Your
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software provider takes care of them for
you and rolls out regular software updates,
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including security updates, so you don't
have to worry about wasting your time maintaining
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the system yourself. Number five is
a two fer. Cloud computing promotes collaboration
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and streamlines processes. Can totally see
how those two go together. When your
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teams can access and share documents note
to any time, from anywhere, they're
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able to do more together and do
it better at the same time, because
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everyone can access the same items.
It eliminates the need to send files back
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and forth as email attachments or physical
hard copies to be worked on by one
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user at a time. And there
you have it. We got our five
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advantages. The cloud, computing,
flexibility, security, frequent backups, updates
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and team collaboration and streamline processes.
So which do you think is the most
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impactful advantage? Well, I've heard
heartrunching stories about practices who have lost it
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all in a disaster. You never
think it's going to happen to you until
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it does, and it's devastating.
I thought for sure you were going to
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say flexibility, since you like to
travel to all those chiropractic conventions. That's
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very true, and I do love
that. So flexibility also ranks up pretty
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high. What's your topic? Streamlined
processes. I'm all about efficiencies to work
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smurder, not harder. Great Point. Great Point. Well, Timmy,
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that was fun. So thank you
so much, Dr Tammy, for joining
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me contributing to the topic, and
thank you to our listeners for tuning in
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to catch up with Cairo touch.
Find more episodes of catch up with Cairo
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touch on spotify, itunes and Cairo
touchcom podcast. Until next time, I
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wish everyone listening a well adjusted day
