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Medical, dental & behavioral health

Healthcare IT Services in Colorado Springs

When your systems slow down, patient care slows down with them.

Your team did not go into healthcare to fight with technology. Every slow login, delayed chart, and front-desk workaround takes time away from patients. Stepping Forward Technology provides healthcare IT services in Colorado Springs that keep your practice running with dependable systems, verified security controls, and a clear technology roadmap.
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20 years
serving Colorado Springs
Founder-led
technology strategy
In-house
full-time CISO owns security strategy

The most expensive problems are the ones nobody reports.

The workaround your staff stopped mentioning

The extra clicks, the second login, the printer that only works from one workstation. Nobody files a ticket anymore. Your team absorbs the delay, visit after visit, into payroll and patience.

Compliance that lives in a binder

Policies were written once, for an audit that already happened. Whether the safeguards behind them are still working is a question nobody can answer quickly.

The vendor runaround

The EHR vendor blames the network. The network provider blames the EHR. Your office manager referees, and the problem comes back next month.

Security you assume is working

Antivirus was installed. MFA was rolled out, mostly. Backups run, probably. Assumed is not the same as verified, especially when your practice depends on those safeguards every day.

Managed IT for healthcare

Healthcare IT services aligned with patient care

Stabilize

Technology that stays out of the way of care. Our managed IT services combine fast, engineer-first support, proactive maintenance, and vendor coordination.

We work from a written standard refined every week since 2016. Recurring issues get a root-cause review so they can be resolved instead of repeatedly patched.

Protect

Verified controls, not assumed ones. Endpoint protection confirmed healthy, patching verified, backups restore-tested, and access closed the day a staff member leaves.

Our full-time, in-house Chief Information Security Officer leads your cybersecurity strategy. Steady, verifiable safeguards without fear tactics.

Empower

A technology roadmap tied to where your practice is going: growth, new locations, new service lines, and new systems.

Strategy is led by our founder, so the advice is sized to your needs and priorities, rather than a sales quota.

Your office manager should not have to referee between vendors. When an issue sits between your EHR, network, and internet provider, we own the coordination until it is resolved and documented.

HIPAA support without slowing your practice down

HIPAA is not a project you finish. It is a posture you maintain. We build safeguards into daily operations so the evidence exists because the work is happening.

That includes risk assessments with supporting documentation, staff security training, access controls tied to onboarding and offboarding, and remediation tracked to completion.

When an audit or insurance questionnaire arrives, you can demonstrate your security posture instead of simply asserting it.

Compliance detail

How we support HIPAA compliance

Explore our approach to risk assessments, safeguards, documentation, and ongoing remediation.
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Matthew Harvey, founder and CEO of Stepping Forward Technology.

Matthew Harvey

Founder & CEO, Stepping Forward Technology
Our strategy is founder-led. You work with the person accountable for the outcome.
Healthcare organizations we support
Woven Care
Achieve Whole Recovery
CSNA

Why healthcare organizations choose Stepping Forward

Your practice needs strategic technology and security leadership as it grows. Our structure brings both together: a founder-led advisor and a full-time, in-house CISO.

We have served Colorado Springs for 20 years. Healthcare organizations including Woven Care, Achieve Whole Recovery, and CSNA trust us with the systems their teams depend on every day.

You get a roadmap connected to your priorities, verified safeguards, and a team that takes ownership when technology gets in the way of care.

Is your practice a good fit?

We work best with healthcare organizations from 15 to 500+ employees, with our sweet spot between 50 and 150. That includes medical and dental practices, clinics, behavioral health organizations, and the vendors that serve them.

If you are a solo provider with a handful of staff, we may not be your most cost-effective option. We will tell you so.

15 to 500+ employees
Sweet spot: 50 to 150
Medical & dental practices
Clinics & behavioral health

Healthcare IT services: frequently asked questions

Our managed healthcare IT services use an all-inclusive monthly fee per user, with no per-device charges for network gear. Project work outside the monthly scope is quoted and approved before it begins. See our pricing page for current ranges and what drives them, or Chat with Matt for a number specific to your practice.
We build HIPAA safeguards into daily operations rather than bolting them on for an audit. That includes security risk assessments with supporting evidence, staff training, access controls tied to onboarding and offboarding, verified technical safeguards, and remediation tracked to completion. Our HIPAA compliance page explains the approach and our role in detail.
Vendor coordination is part of the service. When an issue sits between your EHR, network, and internet provider, we own it until it is resolved and documented, so your office manager is never the referee. Recurring issues receive a root-cause review to address the underlying problem.
Yes. We apply the same security rigor to Google Workspace: identity lifecycle, MFA enforcement, permission structure for sensitive data, and third-party app governance. If your practice uses Google Workspace, we help align its access and security controls with the way your team works.
It goes with you. Your environment documentation, credentials, and data are yours, and we hand them over promptly and professionally. We consider a clean exit a feature of a trustworthy provider, so your practice retains control of the information needed to operate its technology.

Ready to stop absorbing the quiet losses?

Let’s talk about what slows your practice down, where security needs attention, and what your next stage of growth requires.
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