Central Coast Angel Investor and CIO Solutions’ Company Founder and Chairman, John Petote awarded Prestigious Pioneer Award

SANTA BARBARA, CA., April 21, 2017 – CIO Solutions, the leading IT provider in Santa Barbara is proud to announce that company founder and chairman, John Petote, has been awarded the prestigious 2017 Pioneer Award by the South Coast Business & Technology Awards Committee. This year marks the 23rd annual South Coast Business & Technology… Read more »

True Grit: Get IT

By John Lim, CTO So guess what I have been doing the last few days? Besides trying to think of ideas for a new article. Any guesses? No? No takers? Well, I’ve had the pleasure of working with the Engineers here at TekTegrity on a major disaster recovery effort. Yeah, not fun. I never want to… Read more »

Cheat Sheet: How to Train Someone to Replace You

By John Lim, CTO Professional Growth > Training In the last few months, I’ve spent a large chunk of my time working with our technical staff. We call it training but really I think the focus is on personal/professional growth. Our working title for the programs are TekU One and TekU All. TekU One is… Read more »

Quick Tour of the New and Improved CMS QPP Website

By Jill Lowe, Healthcare Account Manager If you haven’t been on the CMS Quality Payment Program (QPP) website lately, you should definitely check it out. The new and improved site is chock full of great information in an easy to navigate format while also being home to a myriad of tools that will come in handy… Read more »

Identity Theft: Removing Social Security Numbers from Medicare Cards

By Jill Lowe, Healthcare Account Manager If you’re a Baby Boomer, you probably remember carrying your Social Security Card around with you in your wallet. Back in those bygone days, your Social Security Number (SSN) was likely on your Health Insurance Card in your wallet as well. At some point, Social Security Numbers became our de… Read more »

HIPAA Security Risk Analysis (SRA)

By Jill Lowe, Healthcare Account Manager When most of us first did a HIPAA Security Risk Analysis, it was not due to altruistic security worry. Nope, it was required for Meaningful Use Attestation. And since not having an SRA is the number one reason for failing a Medicare audit, it’s a darn good thing to… Read more »

Real Consulting // Serious Science with a Touch of Fun

By Josh Erdman, IT Pro When you imagine a lab you probably think of white lab coats, test tubes, clipboards, and beakers. In this way, Baker Wine & Grape Analysis is your typical lab, white coats and all, but there is something else going on here that feels very different from what I expect. It’s the… Read more »

Getting Started on the MACRA MIPS Road

By Jill Lowe, Healthcare Account Manager Can you believe a quarter of 2017 is already behind us? For those who have not yet started on their MACRA MIPS plan, it may seem a bit daunting. But keep in mind, what we do in 2017 can put us in a position to receive the highest possible… Read more »

SLO County Tech Scene: Ingredients for a Viable Tech Region

By Joshua Erdman, IT Pro Flour, eggs, sugar, butter, baking soda, salt… Individually these ingredients would never be considered a meal, but together you have a good base for some cookies. The same can be said for the tech scene on the Central Coast. Individually no one city can claim to have all that is… Read more »

RDS Servers, Hosted Exchange + Outlook Cached Exchange Mode

By Ruby Nahal, Senior Engineer With the rise of hosted exchange services like Office 365, it has increasingly become a challenge to preserve Outlook performance on RDS servers. Back in the day, you could only run Outlook in online mode on a remote desktop server. This was for the better because back then exchange deployments… Read more »