We're moving from Old Town to a new Shea location in 90 days. Is that realistic?

Yes — 90 days is normal for a Scottsdale practice move if cable design starts in the next two weeks. The schedule risk is usually the landlord's TI build or the modality vendor's install date, not the IT scope. We coordinate with the GC, the carrier, the modality vendors, and the building from day one so the cutover lands.

How long does an EHR migration realistically take?

For a 4–10 provider Scottsdale specialty practice, plan 6–9 months end-to-end: vendor selection, PHI data conversion, integration cutover, parallel run, retraining, and post-cutover stabilization. We run the IT side and partner with your EHR vendor's implementation team.

We're acquiring a sister practice across town. What does the IT integration actually take?

Typically 90–180 days for the IT layer: identity consolidation, M365 tenant migration, PMS consolidation, BAA chain reconciliation, and a unified support model. We sequence around clinical retraining and re-branding so patients see one transition, not three.

Will the project disrupt clinic hours?

If we plan it right, no — and we've delivered dozens of these projects in the Valley. Cutovers happen weekends or after-hours, parallel running buys us rollback, and provider experience day-one is faster, not slower. We won't ship a cutover into a Monday clinic.

Do we have to use you for managed IT after the project?

No — projects stand alone. Most Scottsdale practices hand the run-state to their existing IT after we land a project; many invite us to take over the run-state because the project went well. Both are fine.

IT Projects — Scottsdale Healthcare

IT Projects for Healthcare Practices in Scottsdale, Arizona

IT projects for a Scottsdale practice are not 'set up the printer and call it done.' They're the office move from old North Scottsdale space to a new Shea medical-office condo with no lost clinic days. The new DC Ranch satellite that has to open on a published date with full EHR access. The EHR migration from eClinicalWorks to athenahealth. The DSO acquisition that doubled the dental footprint overnight and inherited two PMS systems and three Wi-Fi vendors. The HIPAA security uplift triggered by a cyber-insurance renewal. The ASC fit-out near HonorHealth Thompson Peak that needs to pass AHJ inspection by a specific date.

We run these as actual projects: a named project manager with healthcare experience, a written charter, weekly status, risk log, and a finish date you can hand to the practice owner. Every project has a HIPAA lens built in — books-and-records continuity, BAA chain integrity, PHI preservation, and identity hygiene — because the worst project outcome for a covered practice is an OCR finding three months later.

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Why It Matters

Why IT Projects Matters for Healthcare in Scottsdale

Office moves are easy to underestimate

Tearing down a Scottsdale practice and rebuilding it across town in a weekend means cable, network, Wi-Fi, exam-room AV, printers, label printers, modalities, security cameras, badge access, and the carrier circuit cutover — sequenced so Monday clinic is normal. One missed step pushes the practice to Tuesday and 60+ rescheduled patients.

New-location opens have a published date

When a DC Ranch satellite, an Airpark op suite, or a Shea ASC opens on a date the practice has already announced to patients and referring providers, IT cannot slip. Every system has to land on day one — and the schedule has to absorb landlord, AHJ, and modality delays.

EHR migrations are the highest-risk IT project a practice runs

Migrating from eCW to athena, from Dentrix to a different DSO platform, or onto Epic Community Connect involves PHI data conversion, integration cutover, retraining, and a parallel-run period. Done badly it's a year of operational pain; done well it's 6–9 months with clean books-and-records.

DSO and group-practice integration is where the worst surprises live

Acquiring a sister practice usually means two PMS systems, two M365 tenants, two BAA chains, and two cultures. Done badly the integration drags for a year. Done well it's three to six months with consolidated identity, archive, and clinical workflow.

What's Included

IT Projects Scope for Scottsdale Healthcare

Project charter, sequencing, and weekly status

Named PM with healthcare project experience, written scope, milestone plan, risk and issue log, weekly status to the practice owner and COO — the project rigor the practice doesn't have time to build internally.

Office moves and new-location build-outs

End-to-end: cabling, network, Wi-Fi, exam-room and op AV, printers, label printers, modalities, badge/access, security cameras, carrier cutover, workstation builds, and a punch list closed before the move-in walkthrough.

EHR/PMS migrations

From eCW to athena, from Dentrix to Open Dental or a DSO platform, from Modernizing Medicine to Nextech, or onto Epic Community Connect — PHI data validation, parallel running, historical-data preservation, clinical retraining, and clean cutover dates.

DSO and group-practice acquisitions

Two practices → one: identity consolidation, M365 tenant-to-tenant migration, PMS consolidation, BAA chain reconciliation, branding cutover, and a 90/180/365-day integration plan the owner can defend.

HIPAA security uplift projects

Standing up a documented SRA, deploying EDR/SOC, MFA enforcement, immutable backup, encrypted email, network segmentation, and the artifact set in a defined 60/90/120-day rollout — usually triggered by a cyber-insurance renewal or a near-miss.

ASC and surgery-center fit-outs

Specific to ASCs near HonorHealth Thompson Peak and the Loop 101 corridor — biomed coordination, anesthesia-record integration, OR booms, and AHJ-compliant cabling and AV.

Microsoft 365 / cloud migrations

From legacy hosted environments, closet servers, or a generic SMB tenant into a hardened HIPAA-grade M365 footprint — without losing email history, document audit trails, or BAA continuity.

Imaging modality refresh and integration

Refreshing a CBCT, pano, DEXA, or derm-camera deployment with proper cabling, dedicated workstations, EHR/PMS integration, and PACS/DICOM connectivity where required.

Local Proof

Built for the Scottsdale Healthcare Reality

Project-managed by name, not by ticket

Every project has a named PM with healthcare experience — not a rotating helpdesk lead trying to coordinate vendors after hours.

HIPAA lens on every project

PHI continuity, BAA chain integrity, and audit-log preservation are part of every project plan — not an afterthought when OCR sends a letter.

Local PM presence in Scottsdale

PM and engineers on site at Shea, the Airpark, DC Ranch, or HonorHealth Thompson Peak as needed — not coordinating a clinic move from another time zone over Slack.