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...
by Chloe Williams | May 4, 2026 | Downtime
When an EHR goes down, the conversation quickly turns to IT recovery timelines, data backups, and executive communications. But while leadership is managing the incident from a conference room, nurses are already on the floor doing the hard work: identifying patients,...
by Chloe Williams | May 4, 2026 | Downtime
MEDITECH is one of the most widely used EHR platforms in the country, particularly among community hospitals, critical access hospitals, and mid-sized health systems. Its reputation for stability and comprehensive clinical functionality has made it a cornerstone of...
by Chloe Williams | May 4, 2026 | Downtime
Most healthcare organizations focus their downtime planning on one question: how do we keep caring for patients while the system is down? That is the right priority. But there is a second question that matters just as much, and it tends to get less attention: what...
by Chloe Williams | May 4, 2026 | Downtime
Healthcare organizations put significant effort into building downtime plans: assembling binders, printing forms, setting up workstations, writing policies. Then they file everything away and move on to the next priority. The problem is that an untested downtime plan...
