Contingency planning for your medical practice

Contingency Planning for your Medical Practice

What would you do in the event of a

disaster?

Consider, one morning you wake up to find…

A fire, tornado or other disaster has hit your medical practice.

You can’t get in to the building.

What do you doabout …

• Patients scheduled for that day?

• Notifying Staff?

• Accessing important patient medical information?

A medical practice’s unencrypted server was hacked  and the data

was held hostage.

Actual Scenario

What would you do?

Under HIPAA law, it’s critical that medical practices have a

well thought-out and documented contingency

plan.

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Contingency Planning

Contingency Plan Standard

“Establish (and implement as needed) policies and procedures for responding to an emergency or other occurrence (for example, fire, vandalism, system failure, and natural disaster) that damages systems that contain electronic protected health information.”

In case of a security breach of PHI

Medical practices must “ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of all electronic protected health information the covered entity creates, receives, maintains or transmits” and to “protect against any reasonably anticipated threats or hazards to the security or integrity of such information.”

1. Data Backup Plan

2. Disaster Recovery Plan

3. Emergency Mode Operation Plan

4. Testing and Revision Procedures

5. Applications and Data Criticality Analysis

5 Implementation Specifications

Non-technical aspectsof your medical practice

Staffing Physical facility

Continuity of care

Workflow

Only then will you truly be ready to manage a potential

type of disaster.

Documented, tested and communicated to everyone within your practice.

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