Our Story

Built for healthcare.
Built on accountability.

Focus was started with a straightforward premise: healthcare practices deserved a technology partner who understood their environment. Not a generic IT company that treated healthcare as just another vertical, but a team that had done the work (in the workflows, in the EHR systems, in the compliance requirements) and could own the outcome.

We decided there had to be a better way. Healthcare practices were juggling multiple vendors, nobody owned the full picture, and when something broke, everyone pointed at everyone else. We built Focus around the opposite idea: one team, one point of accountability, one call when something goes wrong.

Today, Focus serves medical and dental practices across the country with 100+ technical staff who work exclusively in healthcare. We have completed 2,000+ data conversions across 100+ EHR and PM systems. Our clients stay with us year after year because the work holds up, and the people behind it do too.

  • 2010

    Focus founded to replace the multi-vendor model with one accountable healthcare IT partner.

  • 2026

    Focus acquires Progressive Solutions, a 25-year dental IT firm founded by Cory Anderson, expanding the Unified Partner model into the dental market.

  • 2026

    Focus Solutions officially rebrands as Focus, marking the company’s evolution from EHR implementation and consulting into a fully integrated Unified Partner for Managed IT, Managed Security, and Managed Data.

Why We Exist

Technology should make care easier, for your team, and for the people they care for.

Every system we build, every ticket we close, and every call we pick up is measured against one question: did this make care easier, or did it get in the way?

One team, one number

IT, security, and data under one roof. When something breaks at 7 a.m., there is one call to make. One team owns the problem through resolution.

Proactive, not reactive

We catch problems before they become tickets. Our clients spend less time on IT because we spend more time on it.

Healthcare-native

HIPAA, data conversions, clinical workflows: we speak the language because this is the only industry we serve. We never have to get up to speed on your environment. We already know it.

Clarity over complexity

We tell you what we are doing and why in plain English. You should not need a translator to understand your own systems. We give you visibility, not excuses.

Long-term partnership

The average Focus client has been with us for years. We build relationships, not retainers. You get the same team, the same contacts, and people who actually know your practice.

Own the outcome

A ticket is not done until your practice is running. We do not route problems to someone else. We see it through.

Impact by the numbers

The numbers behind the work

We measure ourselves on the things that matter to the practices we serve. Here is what fifteen-plus years of focused work in healthcare IT looks like.

Data conversions completed across 100+ EHR and PM systems.
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Healthcare-focused technical staff working exclusively in your industry.
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What I wanted was a handshake and someone who does what they say they’re going to do. That’s Focus.

Greg Robinson

CEO, Valley ENT

Leadership

The people accountable
for your experience

A leadership team built inside healthcare IT, not imported from outside it.

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Bruce Schaumberg Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Bruce founded Focus on the conviction that healthcare practices deserved one accountable technology partner, not a stack of vendors with no one owning the outcome. He leads the company's strategy and growth, and is the voice behind Focus's Unified Partner model.

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Tim Coan Chief Strategy Officer

Tim guides Focus's strategic direction and service model evolution. He brings a healthcare operator's perspective to the company's positioning — and writes and speaks regularly on the business of healthcare technology and practice management.

Mike Lauer Chief Operating Officer

Mike owns service delivery, operations, and the standards that keep commitments honest. He ensures that what gets sold gets delivered — and that the systems supporting every client account are running the way they should.

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Mark Sternig Chief Technology Officer

Mark leads Focus's technical infrastructure, EHR partnerships, and engineering standards. He owns the platform that powers every service line and ensures Focus's technical capabilities stay ahead of the healthcare IT landscape.

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Chuck Reotutar Chief Revenue Officer

Chuck leads Focus's sales and marketing organization and owns client relationships from the first conversation through long-term growth. He brings a practice-level understanding to every prospect engagement, and knows what it looks like when a technology partnership works.

Natalie Nelson VP, Client Success

Natalie leads client success and the long-term relationships that define Focus's retention. She owns the team responsible for making sure every account gets what was promised and that clients are heard when things need to change.

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Will Bingham VP, Product

Will leads Focus's Managed Data analytics practice, turning clinical and operational data into dashboards and decisions that help practices run better. He built Focus's data infrastructure from the ground up and brings a health system data architect's perspective to every engagement.

Cory Anderson Regional VP

Cory founded Progressive Solutions and brings deep expertise in dental practice IT to the Focus platform. He leads Focus's dental vertical and the ongoing integration that gives dental organizations access to the same Unified Partner model that medical practices have relied on for years.

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Lisa Baker CFO

After a start in auditing, Lisa spent 18 years of her career in HCIT with Allscripts. From there she went on to work with companies in other industries before coming home to HCIT with a 5-year CFO role at LivTech. A year ago, she joined us here at Focus where she leads great people to deliver top quality service in finance, accounting, and HR. Outside work she enjoys reading, watching movies, and hanging out with her husband and her two adult daughters whenever she can

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Trip Pognant VP, Product Operations

Trip Pognant lives in North Georgia with his wife and three kids. In his personal time he enjoys all things outdoors including camping trips and running his small scale, family homestead raising chickens, pigs and sheep. At Focus, Trip is responsible for building, operationalizing and supporting our products and services.

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Jason Blankenship VP, Engineering

Jason Blankenship serves as VP of Engineering at Focus, where he leads the technical direction and engineering strategy that drive the company forward. With a focus on building strong teams and scalable solutions, he plays a key role in shaping Focus's product and platform capabilities.

Jim Dorminy VP, Professional Services

As Vice President of Professional Services at Focus, Jim Dorminy leads delivery operations, customer-facing services, and process improvement across healthcare IT. His work spans data conversions, managed IT services, application development, and analytics, with a focus on helping teams execute complex work clearly and consistently. Jim is passionate about building scalable service models, improving operational discipline, and creating strong client experiences. He works closely with leadership and delivery teams to align people, process, and technology so that clients receive reliable outcomes and teams are positioned to succeed.

Team & Culture

100+ people. One playbook. Zero finger-pointing.

The Focus team spans engineers, security analysts, data specialists, and client success managers working across the country. What holds it together is not an org chart. It is a shared standard for how the work gets done and how clients get treated.

We hire for accountability and trust people to run their part of the business. Direct feedback is normal here. Nobody waits to be told what to do, and nobody routes a problem sideways because it is technically outside their lane. When something needs to be fixed, it gets fixed.

Healthcare-focused, always

Every person on the Focus team works exclusively in healthcare. When your account comes up, the people handling it know your environment. There is no ramp-up time and no learning curve on your dime.

On-call without the burnout

Round-the-clock support for all your technology. From help desk to infrastructure, we handle it so you don't have to.

People who stay

The same engineer who onboarded your practice is likely still your point of contact a year later. We keep the people we build, and clients notice.

Funded growth

Certifications, conferences, and continuing education are part of the job here. In healthcare IT, staying current is not optional, and we pay for the things that keep the team sharp.

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Come build this with us.

We are looking for professionals who want to work exclusively in healthcare. If you are tired of supporting every vertical and want to go deep in one, talk to us.

What Makes Focus Different

Built for healthcare. Not retrofitted from a generic MSP playbook.

The difference shows up the first time something breaks, and every quarter after that.

Typical Generalist MSP

Good at IT. Learning healthcare.

  • Separate vendors for IT, security, and data. Coordination falls on your team.

  • Tickets routed through a generic Tier 1 queue with repeated handoffs before resolution.

  • HIPAA treated as a compliance checkbox, not a built-in operating standard.

  • EHR support handled by generalists with variable accountability and experience.

  • Annual business reviews that are sales meetings with a different slide deck.

  • Billing surprises when scope gets fuzzy and nobody owns the gray area.

Focus

Built around the practice workflow

  • One team, one phone number. IT, security, and data under one roof.

  • Tickets go directly to the engineer who knows your environment.

  • HIPAA and HITECH are built into every deployment from day one, not added on top afterward.

  • Direct partnerships with ModMed, athenahealth, and Veradigm, plus depth across 100+ additional systems.

  • Quarterly reviews focused on your roadmap, your outcomes, and what comes next for your practice.

  • Flat-rate billing. Scope changes are documented and agreed before work starts, not after.

Certifications, Compliance & Partners

Credentialed where it counts

We hold, and actively maintain, the credentials healthcare organizations are required to vet. And we partner directly with the platforms your practice already runs on.

HIPAA & HITECH aligned

Every deployment uses controls mapped to the HHS Security Rule. We operate as a Business Associate for every client we manage, and BAAs are executed and maintained on file.

HITRUST CSF Certified

Focus maintains HITRUST CSF Certification, validating our security program against a comprehensive healthcare security framework.

Cyber liability insured

Focus carries cyber liability coverage. Documentation is available to clients and prospects during the procurement process.

Focus has been proactive in identifying and resolving issues before they even become problems, something that has made a huge difference for us.
Stephanie Santos
Operations Services Coordinator, Urology Specialists of the Carolinas (USOC)
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Ready to talk?

Whether you’re evaluating partners for the first time or replacing one that isn’t working, we’d like to learn about your practice. No pressure, no pitch. Just a conversation about what’s possible.