Trends in Disaster Preparedness and Recovery Technologies

Trends in Disaster Preparedness and Recovery Technologies analyzes the current state of readiness of healthcare organizations when faced with a natural or man-made disaster. It examines the threats, risks, preparedness levels, recovery plans, and the role technology plays in business continuity planning.

Based on information gathered from care providers representing hospitals and healthcare delivery networks across a broad spectrum of care delivery organizations including general, teaching and specialty hospitals and small to large healthcare delivery networks in urban, suburban and rural community settings, Trends in Disaster Preparedness and Recovery Technologies provides insight into plans and preparations including:

• How well do IT professionals think their organization is prepared for a disaster, epidemic or other type of major business interruption?

• What does facility management have to do with the organization's IT management?

• What risks are care provider organizations most concerned about — and what are they doing about them?

• How well would care delivery organizations cope with an emergence of a pandemic on the order of the influenza epidemic of 1918?

• How many acute care facilities employ syndromic surveillance systems — and how are they using the data collected?

TABLE OF CONTENTS

SECTION 1
Executive Summary and Methodology

• Methodology

SECTION 2
Demographics

• Types of Organizations Represented
• Executives and Professionals
• Physician Offices and Ambulatory Care Organizations
• Sharing Data beyond the Enterprise

SECTION 3
State of Preparedness

• Current State of Preparedness
• Risks to Business Continuity
• Preparedness vs. Potential Risks
• Challenges to Being Prepared

• Policies, Protocols, and Procedures
  
• Business Continuity Plan Review Process
  
• Policy Development Processes and Resources
  
• Alignment of IT and Facility Management
  
• Computer-Related Concerns
  
• Service Level Agreements
  
• Disaster Preparedness and Recovery Budgets
  
• Disaster Preparedness and Recovery Technologies
  
• Mirrored Backup Sites
  
• Implementation Plans
  
• Syndromic Surveillance
  
• State of Preparedness

• Storage Capabilities and Plans
• Clinical Demands
  
• Storage Budgets and Allocations
  
• Data Storage Installations

SECTION 6
Corporate View

• Healthcare IT Products and Services
  
• Project Charges
  
• Greatest Needs
  
• Top 10 Underestimated Costs

APPENDIX I
Verbatim Responses