Saving your Hospital Records from Disaster

MAKATI CITY, Philippines - March 9, 2014 - PRLog -- Disaster Recovery (DR) is a painful topic in the light of the destruction in the Visayas caused by typhoon Yolanda. DR is generally defined as the processes, policies and procedures that are related  to preparing for recovery or continuation of technology infrastructure which are vital to an organization after a natural or human-induced disaster (Wikipedia). As such, DR is a subset or component part of business continuity.

Of business that suffer a catastrophic loss of data, 43% never reopen and 29% close within two years. This involves a significant investment of time and money with the aim of ensuring minimal losses in the event of a disaster.

Hospitals are businesses, just like any other business, they generate paper based data and are required by law to maintain their records for a specified period of time. In the case of patient records they have to be kept for the life of the patient.

So what do you do to make sure that your paper records are backed up, and thus part of the DR plan?

Unless you plan on photocopying every patient record and storing  the copies off site, there is only one answer, you have them scanned and uploaded to a document management system. Apart from the many benefits of document management, such as faster retrieval of records, document sharing, remote access, by keeping an electronic copy of your patient records, that data is now in the domain of your "technology infrastructure" therefore backed up and part of the DR plan, without you having to  do anything  other than scan and index your patient records.

·         72% of business eventually disappear after a disaster.

·         Most Disaster Recovery (DR) Plans do not include paper

·         Hospitals generate paper records

·         Paper records may be backed-up thru scanning and included in the DR

·         Searching records electronically is faster

·         It is cheaper to scan than photocopy

·         Flooding is not the only disaster (fire, infestation,earthquakes, war)

Call us to learn how we can partner with your hospital to mitigate these risks. 632.893.5951, 632.893.5983 or email us at sales@paperlesstrail.net.

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