Managed IT for Dental Practices Checklist

This document is a checklist designed for dental practice owners and IT decision-makers to evaluate their IT support, security, compliance, and reliability. It outlines several key areas of focus, including the IT support model and contracts, hardware and software inventory, security and compliance controls, backup and disaster recovery, monitoring and maintenance, and vendor management. Each section provides specific tasks to document and verify, such as current IT support arrangements, hardware and software inventories, and compliance with HIPAA technical safeguards. The checklist also includes a scoring model to assess risk levels based on the completion of the tasks, categorizing them into high, moderate, or controlled risk. Immediate red flags are identified for critical issues that require attention, such as undocumented support response times or untested backups. The document concludes with a recommendation for a Dental IT Readiness Assessment if significant risks are identified.