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Best Practice Cloud Hosting for Australian Medical Practices

CRT Network Solutions provides Best Practice cloud hosting for Australian medical practices, telehealth clinics, and multi-site practice groups. We run your BP Premier database on Australian cloud infrastructure, back it up every night, secure it to RACGP standards, and support the whole environment day to day. No on-premises server, no hardware refresh cycles, and no reliance on a local machine in a back room.

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Cloud-hosted Best Practice solves all four. The database lives on Australian cloud infrastructure, sessions come through securely from any location, and the practice keeps running whether the physical rooms are open or not.

Why Best Practice Belongs in the Cloud

Best Practice was built as an on-premises product, and for a long time that made sense. A server in the back room, workstations on the same network, a nightly tape rotation, and you were done. That model is now the thing holding a lot of practices back.

If your practice runs entirely online or across multiple non-traditional locations, hosting BP Premier on a physical server doesn't work.
Getting BP running smoothly across three or four locations from a single on-prem server is difficult, expensive, and slow.
A server crash, an air-conditioner failure, or a break-in at the practice can take BP Premier down for days.

now expect the kind of encryption, backup, and access control that's difficult to maintain on a local server without dedicated IT staff.

What Our Best Practice Cloud Hosting Includes

Every practice we host runs on the same underlying build so we can support it properly. Cloud hosting covers the infrastructure your BP Premier database runs on. Support, backup, and security services are quoted alongside as a separate line so you see the full cost of running your environment upfront.
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Included in your monthly hosting fee:

  • BP Premier hosted on Australian cloud servers: Data stored in Australian data centres to meet Privacy Act and My Health Records Act obligations. No offshore hosting, no data crossing borders.
  • Secure remote access for every user: Doctors, nurses, and practice staff sign in from the practice, home, or a telehealth location using multi-factor authentication. No VPN gymnastics.
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Quoted alongside hosting (separate paid services):

  • Nightly encrypted backups on Australian servers: Backups run each night automatically, encrypted at rest, retained to the schedule your practice needs.
  • Managed security baseline: MFA on every account (priced per user, non-negotiable across all staff), conditional access policies, endpoint protection on connected devices, and audit logging turned on and monitored. Aligned to RACGP standards and the ACSC Essential Eight.
  • Ongoing performance tuning: BP Premier isn’t a set-and-forget database. We monitor performance, apply updates in maintenance windows, and keep the environment tuned as the practice grows.
  • Helpdesk support for the practice team: Our senior technicians answer within 3 minutes for urgent issues. If a receptionist can’t get into BP at 8.15 am on a Monday, that’s a call we take first.
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Multi-Site Best Practice on One Cloud Environment

Running Best Practice across multiple locations from a single on-prem server is where most practices hit the wall. Cloud hosting removes the constraint entirely. Every location signs into the same hosted BP database at the same speed, whether they’re across town or across the state. New locations are added by giving staff access, not by installing a second server. Reporting and billing across sites become straightforward because the data is already in one place.

For practices already exploring multi-site Best Practice support, moving to cloud hosting is often the step that makes the multi-site model actually work day to day.

Who Cloud Hosted Best Practice Is Right For

Not every practice needs to move to the cloud. The ones that get the most from it fall into a few groups.

  • Telehealth clinics and remote-first practices: No physical rooms, or minimal rooms with staff working from home. Cloud hosting is effectively the only sensible option.
  • Multi-site medical groups: Two or more locations that need to work off the same patient database in real time.
  • New practices being set up from scratch: Skip the server room. Start on cloud-hosted BP Premier from day one and avoid the hardware cost.
  • Practices with ageing on-prem servers: If your current server is coming up on end-of-life and you’re looking at a significant hardware refresh, cloud hosting is usually the better spend.
  • Practices tired of managing IT themselves: If the current arrangement is “we call someone when it breaks,” moving to a managed cloud environment removes most of the calls.

How Migration to the Cloud Works

Moving BP Premier from an on-prem server to cloud hosting is a defined process. Most practices are fully migrated inside two weeks, with zero unplanned downtime.

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1. Discovery and planning

We audit your current BP Premier setup, confirm database size, integrations (HICAPS, imaging, secure messaging), and any custom configurations. You get a written migration plan and a cutover window.

2. Cloud environment build

We provision the hosted environment on Australian infrastructure, install BP Premier, and configure security and backup baselines before your data goes near it.

3. Data migration and testing

Your BP Premier database is migrated over a weekend or overnight, with the source system kept intact until we've verified the cloud copy end to end.

4. Cutover

Users switch to the cloud environment on the agreed date. We're on-site or on-call for the first day to catch anything the testing missed.

5. Ongoing Support

From day one, the practice can move onto our managed support plan. If something breaks, you call us, not the software vendor.

Compliance and Data Residency

For an Australian medical practice, where your patient data physically lives is not optional. Our Best Practice cloud hosting keeps every piece of it inside Australia.

Databases and backups both stored on Australian infrastructure. No US or European hosting.
AES-256 encryption for stored data, TLS 1.2 or higher for every connection.
Access control, audit logging, backup verification, and staff account lifecycle handled to the standards you'll be audited against.
Data handling and access controls configured for practices that participate in the My Health Record system.
Audit logs and alerting are set up so a suspected breach can be assessed inside the 30-day window the scheme requires.

If cybersecurity is the wider concern beyond just the BP Premier environment, our managed security services practice covers the rest of the tenant.

Why Choose CRT for Best Practice Cloud Hosting

One team for the whole environment

Best Practice cloud hosting, Microsoft 365, cybersecurity, backup, and helpdesk are all handled by the same team. Not a stack of vendors pointing at each other when something breaks.

Senior technicians answer inside 3 minutes

Not a junior on a script. The person who picks up knows what SR1, BP Premier database corruption, and HICAPS terminal setup actually are.

Over 20 years supporting Australian medical practices

BP Premier, Medical Director, radiology PACS, and dental practice management systems are what we work on every week. We’re not a general IT firm dabbling in medical.

Local Brisbane and Sunshine Coast offices

We have offices at Fortitude Valley and Mooloolaba, with technicians available for on-site work across South East Queensland when it’s needed. Remote support covers the rest of Australia.

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Frequently Asked Questions

No, not directly from Best Practice Software. BP Premier is designed as an on-premises product. Cloud hosting means an MSP (like CRT) hosts the BP Premier server infrastructure in a cloud environment on your behalf, with the software still running exactly as it would on an on-prem server. Your practice gets all the cloud benefits without any change to how the clinical software works.
Yes, usually faster. On-prem BP Premier speed is limited by the server hardware you bought years ago and the office network it runs on. Cloud-hosted BP Premier runs on modern, tuned infrastructure with dedicated resources per practice. The only situation where cloud can feel slower is if your practice has poor internet, which we check during the discovery phase.

Without internet, cloud-hosted BP Premier can't be accessed. This is the honest trade-off. We mitigate it two ways: we recommend a business-grade primary connection with a 4G or 5G failover, and we can configure emergency local read-only access to recent patient records for continuity of care. In practice, internet reliability for Australian medical practices in 2026 is high enough that this rarely becomes an issue.

Yes. HICAPS terminals, radiology imaging systems, secure messaging (Argus, Healthlink, Medical-Objects), and pathology results all continue to work. We configure the integrations as part of the migration so nothing changes clinically for your team.
Two to three weeks of elapsed time for most practices, with cutover done overnight or over a weekend so the practice loses zero clinical hours. Larger multi-site groups take four to six weeks. The migration timeline is fixed at the start of the project so your practice can plan around it.

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If you're weighing up cloud-hosted Best Practice for a new practice, a multi-site expansion, or a server that's on its last legs, we can walk you through it. Call 1300 760 339, request a quote online, or read more about our broader Best Practice IT support and medical IT support services.