Backup and Business Continuity Planning
The purpose of business continuity planning is to keep your hospital running during a natural, man-made, or technological interruption. Some businesses can suspend their operations for a brief time in order to recover. Hospitals don’t enjoy that luxury. Your 24/7/365 operations must continue in the event of such interruptions—in fact many causes of such interruptions actually increase the need for hospital services. After all, injuries associated with the natural or man-made disasters require your treatment.
Must be prepared to continue operating in the event of:
- Technology system failure.
- Power grid failure.
- Sabotage.
- Computer virus.
- Fire.
- Flood.
- Earthquake.
- Terror attack.
If you lack an effective recovery plan, you aren’t alone. Most small hospitals need help. They have not tested data restores; they have not included significant aspects of contingency planning that will keep them running in spite of the nature of the disaster.
We recently helped a hospital that lost a hard drive and didn’t realize that their backup had not worked for months. Thus, they were forced to reenter several months of payroll data in order to meet the government reporting requirements. This project took several man-months and thousands of dollars to complete. An effective backup plan would have alleviated the need for such an intense recovery project.
Our team of experts can review your plans or help you develop new plans to insure that you are prepared for an acceptable recovery time.
We can break these plans down into stages so that you can grow into a full business continuity plan. You determine the acceptable levels of risk and your appropriate recovery time. Then we help you build a plan appropriate to achieve them.
