Vendor & Integration Management

Your vendors manage
their products.
We manage the problems between them.

PracticeGuard provides independent technology oversight for your practice—representing your interests, not the vendors’. Someone in your practice is absorbing vendor problems right now — on hold, submitting tickets that go nowhere, trying to resolve issues completely outside their training. That person deserves backup. So does your practice.

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Independent practices without internal IT
Practice manager stressed at desk handling vendor and software issues in a medical office

This is happening in independent practices every single day. A vendor issue that should take hours takes weeks. Nobody on staff has the technical authority to escalate it. The person holding the phone isn't supposed to be doing this job at all.

Any one of these could cost more than you think.

Unmanaged vendor problems can lead to delayed payments, staff overtime, scheduling disruption, and lost production.

Built for
Independent Dental Practices
Medical & Specialty Clinics
Physical Therapy & Rehab
Independent Practice Groups
Any Practice Without In-House IT
The Problem

You're running 6 software platforms.
Nobody is watching them.

Every independent practice runs multiple systems that are supposed to work together. When they stop — and they will — every vendor points at someone else. You're left holding the phone while payroll hours disappear, claims get delayed, schedules get disrupted, and revenue leaks out of the practice.

Issue 01
The Vendor Runaround
You call Vendor A. They say it's Vendor B's fault. You call Vendor B. They say check with Vendor A. Meanwhile your staff is doing manual workarounds and nothing is resolved.
Issue 02
The Silent Failure
The most dangerous breakdowns aren't loud. Integrations can fail quietly for weeks — data not flowing, records not syncing. You find out when something downstream goes wrong, months later.
Issue 03
The Cost You Don't See
Staff time chasing vendor support. Claims delayed because data didn't transfer. Audit exposure from documentation gaps. The true cost of unmanaged vendor relationships is hidden until it isn't.
Issue 04
No One to Call
Independent practices have no in-house IT. Managed service providers handle networks and hardware — not vendor relationships and integrations. That gap is exactly where problems live.
What We Do

Six things your retainer
covers every month.

PracticeGuard gives independent practices a single point of ownership across software vendors, integrations, and recurring system issues. We act as the oversight layer between your practice and its software and technology vendors — reducing wasted staff time, keeping issues from dragging on, and pushing problems forward before they become expensive.

01
Single Point of Contact
Your designated software and technology vendors route through us. No more explaining your systems from scratch to a new support representative every time a problem occurs.
02
Issue Triage
We assess every complaint before it becomes a vendor call. Real failure, user error, or sales pitch — separated and handled correctly.
03
Vendor Translation
Vendor-speak becomes plain English. You get a clear summary of what happened and what — if anything — you need to decide.
04
Integration Oversight
We review known critical integrations, recurring failures, vendor notices, and available system evidence to identify problems before they become prolonged disruptions.
05
Vendor Accountability
When vendors blame your system, we push back with specifics. When they miss commitments, we escalate. They know this practice has oversight.
06
Contract & Renewal Oversight
We track vendor agreements, renewal dates, service commitments, pricing changes, and unresolved obligations. Your practice retains final approval and signature authority.
Who We Serve

Built for independent practices
with no internal IT.

If your practice runs 4 or more software platforms and has nobody whose full-time job is managing the vendors behind them — this service was built for you.

Independent Dental Practices
Practice management, imaging, patient communication, insurance verification, payment processing — running on integrations nobody has reviewed since install day. We watch them so you don't have to.
Medical & Specialty Clinics
Multiple software platforms that were never designed to work together, managed by staff whose job is patient care — not vendor support. We fill the gap that no one else does.
Physical Therapy & Rehab
Scheduling, billing, documentation, and patient communication platforms that break quietly and cost you time and revenue. We catch failures before they reach your front desk.
Any Independent Practice
If software issues keep landing on the owner, office manager, or lead staff member because no one formally owns vendor coordination, PracticeGuard fills that gap. We bring structure, follow-through, and accountability across the stack.
"My job is to stop vendor issues from quietly turning into payroll waste, delayed claims, staff frustration, and owner distraction. When something breaks, I drive it forward until there is an answer."
— The PracticeGuard Commitment
How It Works

Simple structure. Quoted after fit.

PracticeGuard is structured to be straightforward, but pricing is discussed after a short conversation so the scope matches your actual software stack, vendor load, and level of oversight needed. Most practices never add up what vendor problems actually cost them. When you do, the math changes.

Onboarding
One-time startup
baseline and documentation
Before ongoing support begins, we document your vendor environment, understand your systems, and establish a baseline so nothing critical is missed.
  • System and vendor review
  • Key integrations documented
  • Primary contacts established
  • Initial risk and issue baseline
Monthly Retainer
Flat monthly structure
ongoing oversight and support
Your monthly engagement covers the vendor management, issue triage, integration oversight, and reporting that help prevent payroll waste, delayed collections, and ongoing disruption from unmanaged software problems.
  • Vendor interface and escalation
  • Integration health oversight
  • Issue triage and translation
  • Monthly reporting and follow-up
  • Accountability when vendors stall
  • Clear boundaries before extra work
Project Work
Scoped separately
only when needed
New implementations, major upgrades, or platform transitions are treated as separate work so your ongoing support does not become a vague catch-all.
  • New software rollouts
  • Major vendor transitions
  • Upgrade-related coordination
  • Emergency work only with approval
The Team

20+ years making sure
vendor relationships don't fail you.

PracticeGuard is built on a simple premise — the person managing your vendor relationships needs to know what vendors are actually talking about. That expertise comes from two decades of healthcare IT implementation at some of the most demanding environments in the country.

Barry Conley headshot
Founder & Principal
Barry Conley
20+ years in healthcare IT working with independent practices and major health systems nationwide. Barry has seen every way a vendor relationship can go wrong — and built PracticeGuard around making sure it doesn't happen to your practice.
20+ years healthcare IT implementation experience
Deep knowledge of clinical, dental, and specialty practice software ecosystems
Experienced in EMR integrations, device connectivity, and vendor management
Founder, CoreVue IT

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Tell us about your software environment, recurring vendor problems, and where staff time is being lost. We will discuss the situation, determine whether PracticeGuard is a good fit, and outline the appropriate monthly structure.

  • ●PracticeGuard supports vendor coordination, issue escalation, and operational problem-solving for practices that need experienced backup.
  • ●Built for independent practices, specialty clinics, dental, chiropractic, behavioral health, physical therapy, and ambulatory groups dealing with recurring vendor or workflow friction.
  • ●The goal is practical cost savings: less staff time lost to vendor back-and-forth, fewer unresolved issues lingering, and clearer next steps when problems start affecting operations.
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