Technology & Security
Backup and Downtime Planning: Could Your Practice Survive a Ransomware Day?
When systems go down, practices still see patients. A practical backup and downtime plan keeps revenue and care moving.
Plan for the day systems are down
Ransomware attacks on practices regularly force days of manual operations. The practices that survive well had three things: tested offline backups, paper downtime procedures, and a plan for who decides what during the outage.
Backups that have never been restored are a hope, not a plan — test restores on a schedule.
Build the minimum viable plan
Keep immutable or off-network copies of EHR, scheduling, and billing data.
Print one-page downtime forms and know how long you can operate on them.
Write the recovery call list: IT provider, EHR vendor, clearinghouse, and your bank — before you need it.
How Precision helps
Our IT team designs backup and downtime plans for practices, runs recovery testing, and includes it all in a free infrastructure and subscription review.
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This article is for general information and is not legal advice. Rules change often — confirm current requirements with CMS, your payers, or counsel.