by Chloe Williams | Jul 14, 2026 | Downtime
Every hospital department feels the impact of an EHR outage. The ICU feels it most acutely. The patients in an intensive care unit are, by definition, the most medically complex and clinically unstable in the facility. The workflows that sustain them, continuous vital...
by Chloe Williams | Jul 14, 2026 | Downtime
Outpatient clinics occupy an interesting and often overlooked position in the healthcare downtime conversation. They are not hospitals. They do not have 30-person IT departments, dedicated downtime coordinators, or the operational infrastructure that large health...
by Chloe Williams | Jul 10, 2026 | Downtime
What Happens to Data Collected in dbtech When the EHR Comes Back Online? This question gets to the heart of what separates a real downtime solution from a simple backup. The ability to continue registering patients and documenting care during an outage only delivers...
by Chloe Williams | Jul 6, 2026 | Downtime
A decade ago, most hospital IT teams treated EHR downtime as an infrequent event, something that happened a few times a year during planned maintenance windows or the occasional unexpected server failure. The assumption was that downtime was manageable because it was...
by Chloe Williams | Jul 6, 2026 | Downtime
Patient safety in healthcare is typically framed around clinical practices: medication administration protocols, surgical checklists, fall prevention programs, infection control procedures. These are the domains where errors happen and where quality improvement...
