Emergency Department Downtime Case Study HIM 301 Introduction to Health Informatics

EHR downtime can be a difficult thing but in an age of technology and electronics, our healthcare must keep up with the advancing capabilities in order to best suit that of our patients.  With all technology today there are updates, crashes, and unforeseen shutdowns that happen on a regular basis. With these regular happenings healthcare organizations must be prepared for the times when the systems experience such downtime. 
It is crucial for an organization to frequently complete risk assessments to their systems. Risk assessments are essentially testing that the organizations IT team preform on their systems in order to pre-diagnose any possible downtimes. During these assessments the IT team should...