
The Owner-Doctor’s 30-Minute AI and Data Checkup
You do exams all day. Here’s one for the practice — ten minutes on AI, ten on data, ten on encryption — and what a passing score actually looks like.

You do exams all day. Here’s one for the practice — ten minutes on AI, ten on data, ten on encryption — and what a passing score actually looks like.

Records to the specialist, a referral to the oral surgeon, an X-ray to a patient who asked — all sent by email, all unencrypted, all normal. Here are three ways patient data leaks through the inbox, and how to fix it by policy instead of memory.

“Yes, our devices are encrypted” is an easy thing to say and a hard thing to show. Here’s what managed encryption means, the three moments you’ll be asked for proof, and what a report worth handing over looks like.

A laptop gets stolen from a car after clinic hours. What happens next — a lost device or a reportable breach — depends on one setting most practices have never verified. Here’s what encryption actually does, and what it doesn’t.