Question

From a healthcare organization perspective, develop a disaster recovery plan for either an organization or a hospital department. Include:

A description of healthcare disaster issues in general and for your state.

Develop a list of consequences of loss of data from a disaster (for example, risk of losing data required for patient care that can have life or death ramifications).

Identify a list of minimal resources required to maintain business operations.

Determine the priority for resuming business functions.

Answer 1

Disaster recovery plan is usually framed by the organisation or the hospital to face any unexpected events which is a threat to human life or property.

The main disaster healthcare issue is the need of emergency medical services for the affected or injured people .This can be overcome by a proper plabplanning to avoid any shortage.Some of

Some of the consequences which can occur as a result of loss of data after a disaster are

• Security lax of maintaining data
• getting postmortem forensic report
• if the method used are outdated ,data cannot be recovered
• loss of patient data
• Medical error are highly possible due to lack if data
• Transmission of data from one healthcare organizations to other will be difficult
• accessing the data of patient by physician will be a trouble and vice versa

A planning committee can be formed to assess the risk and a minima resource if back up staff,existing documentation, historical record,departments policy and procedure.

The priority for resuming business functions are to avoid revenue loss of an organization, to maintain The standard of care delivered, to provide a quality service