by Chloe Williams | Jul 27, 2026 | Document Management
When an EHR outage ends and the system is restored, most healthcare organizations treat the event as closed. The IT team issues a communication that normal operations have resumed. Clinical staff return to the EHR. The backlog of downtime-period documentation gets...
by Chloe Williams | Jul 27, 2026 | Downtime
Every clinical unit in a hospital has something to lose when the EHR goes offline. Labor and delivery has more to lose than most. The combination of high clinical acuity, time-sensitive decision-making, two patients in every encounter rather than one, and the...
by Chloe Williams | Jul 24, 2026 | Downtime
Can dbtech Support Multiple Departments with Different Downtime Workflows? Yes, and this is one of the features that makes dbtech particularly well suited for hospital environments where the downtime needs of the ED, nursing units, pharmacy, registration, and other...
by Chloe Williams | Jul 20, 2026 | Downtime
The healthcare downtime conversation is dominated by the large EHR platforms. Epic goes down at a major health system. Cerner experiences a connectivity issue across a hospital network. MEDITECH undergoes a planned upgrade window. These events are visible,...
by Chloe Williams | Jul 20, 2026 | Downtime
The shift from fee-for-service to value-based care is the most significant structural change in healthcare reimbursement in a generation. For most clinical and financial discussions, that shift is understood as a change in how care is paid for. What is less frequently...
