Surviving a McKesson Downtime

[Alexandra Casey]

As I’m sure many nurses and hospital personnel can attest, downtime can be a complete headache. With focuses on increased electronic data stored in the EMR, downtime situations have the ability to turn devastating quickly.

There are a few key things you can do to ensure you have a successful (or at least manageable!) downtime. The most important thing during a downtime is technology. Hospitals must adopt a robust technology that will keep information available and easily accessible for hospital staff. Without the right technology in place, the hospitals ability to ensure patient safety and to provide reliable, up-to-date information is near impossible during any type of downtime.

Once a reliable technology is in place, having a knowledgeable staff in place and implementing best practices to that technology become vital. The staff and best practices will help ensure the technology and processes run smoothly across your organization.

Robust technologies nowadays often mean “big bucks." But what if you had a comprehensive solution that made your staff’s lives easier during downtime, while providing not only a significant return on your investment, but also a sense of security and reliability?

Turning to a product like the Summit Downtime Reporting System can provide hospitals with an easy-to-use platform for business continuity. Summit DRS stores critical reports of key data separately from the EHR system and network, accessible whether your HCIS or Network is down, ensuring that information can be viewed or printed during any type of downtime. This ensures that an outage will not put a hospital out of service, enabling organizations to maintain care through even the most challenging of situations.

If you would like to learn more about the Summit Downtime Reporting System, please email us, or join our upcoming webinar:

Business Continuity during Downtime- Ready to meet the HIPAA Final ...

Date: Tuesday, September 17th

Time: 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET

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Alexandra Casey is the Marketing Coordinator for Summit Healthcare, a sponsor of "The Floor Plan" on McKesson Social