Business continuity

Draft emergency planning document, which addresses medical records implications, is based on lessons learned from Katrina, Sandy, Harvey and other disasters.

Draft emergency planning document, which addresses medical records implications, is based on lessons learned from Katrina, Sandy, Harvey and other disasters.

More than 2,000 patients transferred out of hospitals, assisted living facilities and nursing homes.

Storm weakening as it progresses up the Florida peninsula, cutting power and limiting access.

As Irma nears, access to real-time information about emerging threats needed to make decisions.

As Irma nears, access to real-time information about emerging threats needed to make decisions.

As U.S. clinicians become more dependent on records systems, they don’t have the experience to revert to backup approaches, raising perceived risk compared with doctors in other countries.

A new Data Breach Response Guide from Experian, which offers breach recovery services, walks through a myriad of processes for putting together an enterprisewide plan to prepare for and respond to a breach, and then put the plan into motion when an incident occurs.Areas covered include communicating to the C-Suite, creating a plan, practicing the plan, responding to a breach, auditing the plan, and a quiz with core questions to assess present preparedness. “If you answer NO more than once or twice, you and your team should immediately address the gaps to get fully prepared,” according to Experian.