MedCity News July 31, 2023
It’s never a question of whether a hospital will experience downtime — it’s a matter of when. Adopting the right downtime technology means hospitals can cut costs, reduce stress on staff and mitigate risk of cyberattack by automatically encrypting data to HIPAA standards.
By their very nature, hospitals are “always on.” Through tornadoes and hurricanes, multi-car pile ups, and other emergencies, hospitals and health systems are on the front lines of healthcare, ready to triage, evaluate and treat everyone who comes through their doors. But what if access to patient data comes to a sudden halt? How can a facility continue to care for patients in the middle of an organization-wide crisis? Despite circumstances that would shut down other organizations...