Assignment on the Disaster Recovery Plan

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American Helath Information Management Association

Added on 2020-05-28

Assignment on the Disaster Recovery Plan

American Helath Information Management Association

Added on 2020-05-28

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Running Head: DISASTER RECOVERY PLANDisaster Recovery PlanName of the StudentName of the University

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1DISASTER RECOVERY PLANDisaster Recovery Plan In cases of healthcare and medical situations, recovery plans are always necessary incases of large scale disasters that disrupt the lives of thousands of people. For instance, theHurricane Katarina devastated a large area of land and islands in North America and as a result,there was a severe medical situation where most of the affected people also lost their medicalrecords as a result of the disaster (Sahi, Lai & Li, 2016). This resulted in the delay of theirtreatments as they are mainly done after checking the patients’ medical records. Hence, in orderto avoid these situations in the future, suitable disaster recovery plans are necessary. Some of thepossible disaster recovery plans that can be applied are divided into two categories – electronicand paper patient information. The parameters for securing electronic and paper patientinformation are as follows.Parameter for securing paper information will include the signature or thumb impressionof the patient, a stamp from the hospital authority, security printing of the document for avoidingtampering, copying or scanning and others.Parameter for securing electronic information will include electronic stamp or QR code,electronic record of the patient’s thumb impression or eye retina, system firewalls and others.The disaster recovery plans for electronic patient information are as follows.Cloud Back Up – In the current technical age, cloud computing is sufficiently developedto be relied upon for storing significant amounts of data. Hence, the users who have access tointernet connection can use cloud services to store their personal medical data including medicalrecords, medications taken and others (Nelson & Staggers, 2016). However, the issue with this

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2DISASTER RECOVERY PLANsolution is that cloud servers are vulnerable to external attacks and other security issues andhence, the personal information and medical records of the users may get stolen by hackers andother unethical third party users. However, cloud back up is based on subscription and after adisaster, information from the cloud can easily be retrieved by logging in.Flash Drives – There may arise a situation that during a massive scale disaster likehurricane or typhoon, the internet connection in a large area gets lost due to disconnection ofinternet cables. In that case, there will be no way for the users to access the internet and retrievedata from cloud (Sword-Daniels et al., 2016). The solution to this problem is keeping backups ofmedical data and records in flash drives like external hard discs, pen drives and others. Thesedevices are small in size and can be carried anywhere in cases of emergency.Websites – There are several websites available that are specifically designed for storingand managing medical data and records of the patients. The patients only need to create andaccount in these websites and register some information like age, location, contact details andothers. After the account is created, the website will provide a portal to the user in which, he willbe able to upload his electronic medical documents for safe storage (Horney et al., 2016). Theuser will be able to retrieve his medical records simply by logging in to his account in thewebsite. The websites acts on a wider network of cloud and keep backups of all the documents indifferent cloud servers in case one server is attacked and information is stolen.Hospitals – Some hospitals have well developed information systems and they usedcomputerized networks for handling patient data i.e. they store electronic copies of medicaldocuments like prescriptions, x-ray reports, pharmacy details and others in their own servers.The disaster recovery plan for paper documents of patient information are as follows.

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