IT Health Check Checklist
What's Covered In This Checklist?
This is the same self-assessment our team runs when we first look at a new dental or healthcare practice’s systems.
Go through the ten items below. If you can’t confidently check off all ten, that’s worth a closer look — they’re exactly what a HIPAA auditor, or a bad actor, would check first.
Ten Things Every Dental & Healthcare Practice Should Verify
These aren’t generic IT best practices — they’re the specific gaps we see most often when we review a new practice’s network, and the ones auditors look for first.
- Backups run automatically, and you've verified a real restore — not just a completion email
- Every workstation and server has active, updated endpoint protection, not just antivirus
- Staff use multi-factor authentication for email and any system touching patient data
- Old or unsupported software and operating systems have been identified and are being replaced
- You know exactly who has admin access to your network, and why
- Your firewall and Wi-Fi are configured for a healthcare network, not left on factory defaults
- You have a written, tested disaster recovery plan — not just backups sitting on a drive
- Your last Security Risk Assessment was within the past 12 months
- Departing employees lose system access the same day, every time
- You could produce an access log for any system holding patient data if asked tomorrow
If even one of these doesn’t sound right, it’s worth a closer look before it becomes a bigger problem — a failed backup or a compliance gap is always cheaper to fix before an incident than after one.
Turn This Into A Real Answer
A checklist tells you where to look. Our free System Evaluation actually checks — we review your network, security, and backups directly and give you a plain-English report on what, if anything, needs attention.
No cost, no obligation, and you keep the report either way.
Why Practices Choose Comodo Technology
We’re based in Greater Sacramento and work exclusively with dental and healthcare practices — HIPAA compliance isn’t an add-on for us, it’s the baseline every recommendation starts from.
You get a real team that knows your systems and answers the phone, 24/7 monitoring, and a single point of contact for IT, security, and compliance — no finger-pointing between vendors when something goes wrong.
Built On Trusted Technology
From network monitoring to backup and security, every health check is built around the same enterprise-grade tools we use to run your systems day to day.
