Healthcare Information Disaster Recovery –

Affordable and AvailableDon’t let your patients valuable information be 

lost in the face of unexpected tragedy.

At Scottsdale Medical Technologies we provide our physicians with an inexpensive off-site back up solution of your data, whether it is medical data, financial data or just word documents, you tell us what you need backed up and our solution does it automatically every night.

HIPAA’s Security Rules lists five implementation specifications.  Are you ready?

What is a covered entity as defined by HIPAA?  They are an indemnity insurers, health maintenance organizations; organizations that transmit healthcare claims or payment/remittance advice, determine claim status, administer first report of injury or health claims attachments, coordinate health benefits, and billing agents that handle any of these activities on behalf of other covered entities.  Whether or not your office is considered a covered entity having a contingency plan in place is good business practice.

So what are these five components we are to have in place?

You can find the section on administrative safeguards in section (164.308) of the security rule on contingency plan standards.  It requires “covered entities” to establish polices and procedures for responding to emergencies and other occasions, such as fire, vandalism, system failure, and natural disaster that would damage systems that contain electronic protected health information.

The contingency plan contains five standards, three are required and two are “addressable”.  Addressable simply means that each individual must assess their current situation and determine whether implementation is reasonable and appropriate.  If not they must either implement another, equivalent measure that is reasonable and appropriate or meet the standard in some other way.  Here are the five areas:

v     Data backup plan (required)

v     Disaster recovery plan (required)

v     Emergency mode operation plan (required)

v     Testing and revision procedures (addressable)

v     Applications and data criticality analysis (addressable)

Scottsdale Medical Technologies can assist you in addressing these areas for the healthcare community.  Our solution encrypts your patient data transmits it securely and backs it up everyday, then stores it securely off site.  This provides a disaster recovery solution in a timely manner, allows for testing your procedures for disaster and we can help provide you with documentation that allows you to complete an impact analysis.

One solution solves HIPAA’s security contingency plan and protects you from unforeseen disasters. 

How does it work?

Technical feature:

Remote Backup runs on all versions of 32-bit Windows, including Windows-95, 98, NT, 2000, 2003, ME, and XP. It works with all networks, including Novell Netware and all Windows networks.