Resource:

Business Continuity for the Health Care Field

Whitepaper

Challenge: Care Continuum  Cultural Transformation  Clinical Integration  Financial Sustainability  

Content provided by AHA Endorsement partner: Agility Recovery

Disasters happen every day. Because the health care system plays a critical role in community recovery, a hospital needs to be prepared for any eventuality.


Disasters happen every day. They range from every day events, such as server failure, to catastrophic regional events such as ice storms, hurricanes, earthquakes and floods. Because the health care delivery system plays such a critical role in community recovery, a hospital needs to be prepared for any eventuality.

Hospitals have complex recovery requirements; a hospital’s recovery plan must be robust and thorough. A hospital should establish outside relationships – with other health care delivery systems and with disaster recovery vendors that offer flexible and adaptable recovery options. A hospital recovery plan should be comprehensive, covering restoration of data, staff, facilities, operations, power, connectivity and technology.

While revenue loss is obviously a critical issue for hospitals, which are often operating on razor thin margins, ensuring patient care is the most important priority for any hospital concerned with disaster recovery. For a health care delivery system, preparation is a matter of life and death.