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Existing electronic health record (EHR) systems already have to deal with this. The ones I am most familiar with have on-site data centers, so it's not purely
by webjprgm 12y ago
Existing electronic health record (EHR) systems already have to deal with this.
The ones I am most familiar with have on-site data centers, so it's not purely in "the cloud" but you can have webapps running from on-site servers and call them "cloud" systems if you want.
The existing systems have ways for printing out important data from a redundant computer system to hand out paper copies if the user workstations, network, or servers are down. I don't know what they would do if there was no electricity anywhere, but I assume hospitals could use their backup generators for this since medical equipment also needs electricity.
- hga 12y agoHospitals tend to have specially provisioned power from the local electric company to minimize the change they'll have to use generators, which I assume are universally in place, although you can't always depend on them, e.g. Charity Hospital in New Orleans (a place where my mother worked in the '50s) only suffered a flooded basement during Katrina ... but of course that was were the generators were. See my other comment for how this company sure doesn't seem to be telling hospital IT departments that they've got on side redundancy.