Tim VanBenschoten

02 — Work

Work

Twenty years inside healthcare IT: infrastructure, security, and the unglamorous work of making systems people can trust. Mostly for medical practices and healthcare organizations.

Operating principle

My goal is to make healthcare IT boring. Boring means things just work.

Nov 2021 → Present

Lead Technical Consultant

DAS Health

Infrastructure, security, and business continuity for the systems healthcare organizations run their records and daily operations on. A good part of the job is architectural: how systems should fit together, and whether an approach really makes sense before it gets built.

Mar 2019 → Aug 2022

Managing Consultant

Itentive Healthcare Solutions

Consulting and system administration for healthcare practices, keeping the day-to-day systems reliable. DAS Health acquired Itentive during this period.

May 2016 → Mar 2019

System Administrator

Practice Resources, LLC

Kept the datacenters running for 15+ medical practices: EHR and practice-management hosting, networks, and endpoints.

2006 → 2015

Technical Product Specialist

Itentive Healthcare Solutions

Top-to-bottom desktop support for a group of private medical practices of different specialties. They shared one local network and domain, an enterprise implementation of MicroMed. NextGen acquired MicroMed during this period. The work covered the EHR and practice-management systems, shared network resources, and the desktops.

1999 → 2003

B.S. Business Management

SUNY Fredonia