by Chloe Williams | May 4, 2026 | Downtime
Downtime is not a question of if, it’s a question of when. According to research published in the Journal of Hospital Medicine, 96% of hospitals experienced at least one unplanned EHR downtime event over a three-year period. And when outages hit, they hit hard:...
by Chloe Williams | May 4, 2026 | Downtime
Epic is the most widely deployed EHR in the United States, powering clinical workflows at many of the country’s largest health systems. But even Epic goes down. And when it does, hospitals using Epic face the same challenge as every other organization: how do...
by Chloe Williams | May 4, 2026 | Downtime
You know your organization needs a better downtime solution. Your clinical staff knows it. Your IT team knows it. The challenge is convincing Finance. Budget requests for downtime preparedness often lose out to competing priorities, new equipment, staffing, facility...
by Chloe Williams | May 4, 2026 | Downtime
Most healthcare organizations think about downtime in terms of their EHR. When Epic goes down, or Cerner has an outage, that’s “downtime.” And they’re right, but they’re only half right. The more dangerous scenario is network downtime:...
by Chloe Williams | May 4, 2026 | Downtime
EHR downtime is a universal risk in healthcare. Whether you operate a two-physician family practice or a 500-bed academic medical center, system outages can disrupt patient care, create compliance exposure, and generate significant operational costs. But the way...
