Eastern Hillsborough County has seen consistent growth in dental practice openings over the past several years as population growth in the Brandon, Valrico, and Plant City corridors has driven demand for dental services. Practices in Plant City and the eastern Hillsborough corridor face IT challenges distinct from those in urban Tampa: older commercial building infrastructure in Plant City’s historic downtown area, internet service options that vary between cable and fixed wireless in some more rural eastern Hillsborough locations, and a growing patient base that is expanding faster than local IT support resources have kept pace with.
Ekim IT Solutions is the dental-exclusive IT provider serving dental practices in Plant City, Valrico, Brandon, and eastern Hillsborough County from our Tampa Bay office at 600 N Westshore Blvd, Suite 701, Tampa, FL 33609.
Plant City dental practices in older commercial spaces frequently discover that the building’s network infrastructure is inadequate for modern dental imaging and cloud-based PMS requirements when they attempt to upgrade their technology.
Ekim IT Solutions addresses these infrastructure priorities for eastern Hillsborough dental practices.
Plant City and eastern Hillsborough practices have access to Spectrum cable internet and in some locations fixed wireless options. Ekim IT Solutions assesses available internet options at each practice location and designs the network infrastructure around what is actually available, including cellular LTE failover where primary internet reliability is a concern.
Plant City’s commercial buildings include spaces that predate structured cabling standards. Ekim IT Solutions plans network drop locations and cabling routes before any buildout or renovation work begins, coordinating with the contractor to avoid the cost of routing cable through finished walls.
Every Ekim IT Solutions dental deployment in eastern Hillsborough includes a business-grade firewall with clinical, staff, and guest network separation meeting HIPAA technical safeguard requirements.
Plant City and eastern Hillsborough dental practices run the same major practice management platforms as practices throughout Tampa Bay: Dentrix, Eaglesoft, Open Dental, and cloud-based platforms including Curve Dental and Dentrix Ascend. Ekim IT Solutions supports all of these platforms with direct dental software expertise rather than the general IT support that most Tampa City area IT providers offer. When a Dentrix imaging bridge fails or an Open Dental database error occurs, Ekim IT Solutions resolves it without the learning curve a general IT provider would require.
Ekim IT Solutions serves dental practices in Plant City, Valrico, Brandon, and eastern Hillsborough County from our Tampa Bay office at 600 N Westshore Blvd, Suite 701. We know the older building infrastructure and mixed internet options this corridor deals with, and how to build around them.