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Downtime Documentation: What Records You’re Required to Keep After an Outage
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 records are we required to keep during and after […]
May 4, 2026
How Often Should You Test Your Downtime Procedures? A Practical Guide for Healthcare Organizations
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 is not really a plan. It is a document. And when a real outage occurs, a document […]
How dbtech Integrates With Your Epic EHR to Eliminate Downtime Risk
Epic is the most widely adopted EHR platform in the United States, powering operations at hundreds of major health systems, academic medical centers, and community hospitals. Its reputation for reliability, clinical depth, and integration capabilities is well established. But Epic is not immune to downtime. Scheduled maintenance windows, network outages, ransomware attacks, and third-party failures […]
FAQ Friday: Can the Downtime Solution Work Offline Without Any Internet Connection?
Yes. The dbtech Downtime Solution is specifically engineered to function without an internet connection, ensuring your clinical teams maintain access to critical patient data and workflows even during a complete network outage. Designed for the Worst-Case Scenario Healthcare organizations cannot afford to assume internet connectivity will always be available during a downtime event. Ransomware attacks, […]
May 1, 2026
FAQ Friday: How Does dbtech Contribute to Sustainability in Healthcare?
Healthcare organizations face growing pressure to reduce their environmental footprint while maintaining the highest standard of patient care. dbtech supports this goal by digitizing and automating processes that have historically relied on paper-based, resource-intensive workflows. Reducing Paper Consumption Across Clinical Operations Traditional downtime procedures often depend on printed forms, paper records, and manual documentation that […]
April 21, 2026
How dbtech Downtime Integrates With MEDITECH EHR
MEDITECH is one of the most widely used EHR platforms in community and critical access hospitals across the country. It powers patient registration, medication administration, clinical documentation, and dozens of other workflows that clinicians depend on around the clock. But even MEDITECH goes down, and when it does, your team needs more than a stack […]
April 20, 2026
Downtime Preparedness Isn’t Optional: Why Every Healthcare Organization Needs a Backup Plan
Every healthcare organization that operates an EHR system will experience downtime. It is not a risk to be managed away, it is a certainty to be planned for. Yet a significant number of hospitals and health systems still approach downtime reactively, relying on printed reports, paper forms, or improvised workarounds rather than a structured, electronic […]
Downtime Readiness for Growing Healthcare Organizations: Start Small, Scale Fast
Downtime preparedness is often framed as an enterprise problem, something that large health systems with dedicated IT teams and eight-figure technology budgets need to worry about. The reality is that small and mid-sized healthcare organizations are just as exposed to EHR downtime events, and in many ways more vulnerable, because they have fewer resources to […]
What Is a Data Backup?
A data backup is a copy of your data that is stored separately from your primary system so that it can be retrieved if the original data becomes unavailable, corrupted, or lost. In everyday terms, a data backup is the safety net that ensures important information is not permanently gone if something goes wrong with […]
How dbtech Integrates With Any EHR to Provide a Reliable Backup System
One of the most common hesitations healthcare organizations have when evaluating a downtime solution is the EHR question: will this actually work with the system we have? It is a fair concern. Healthcare technology vendors routinely promise interoperability that falls short in practice, requiring custom development work, lengthy integration timelines, and IT resources the organization […]
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