by Chloe Williams | May 22, 2026 | Downtime
When an EHR system goes offline, the clinical teams feel it immediately. Nurses cannot pull medication records. Registration staff lose access to patient histories. Physicians cannot enter orders. But there is another group that carries the full weight of a downtime...
by Chloe Williams | May 22, 2026 | Downtime
Every hospital administrator knows downtime is coming. What most don’t fully grasp is just how much it costs when it arrives. Studies consistently place the financial damage of EHR downtime between $7,500 and $7,900 per minute for average healthcare...
by Chloe Williams | May 13, 2026 | Downtime
The Misconception Holding Healthcare Organizations Back Ask most hospital IT directors why they haven’t implemented a downtime solution, and you’ll hear the same answer: “It’s a big project.” The assumption is that deploying a downtime...
by Chloe Williams | May 13, 2026 | Downtime
The Revenue Cycle Is One of Downtime’s Biggest Casualties When an EHR goes down, the clinical conversation dominates: how do nurses document vital signs? Can physicians access historical patient data like lab results and medication administration reports? But...
by Chloe Williams | May 13, 2026 | Downtime
The Downtime Plan That Fails When You Need It Most Most healthcare organizations have some form of a downtime plan. A binder. A set of printed forms. A policy document last updated two EHR versions ago. A SharePoint folder nobody can find when the system is down....
by Chloe Williams | May 13, 2026 | Downtime
One Downtime Solution, Any EHR One of the most common questions healthcare organizations ask before evaluating a downtime solution is: will it work with our EHR? It’s a fair question, and for many IT teams, EHR compatibility is the deciding factor in whether a...
