Steps to take when your computers and/or Internet fails.
- Relax!
- Check the power source.
- Reboot the computer.
- Call the "Help Desk"????
- Have a back-up plan in place for charting, ordering, prescribing, and discharging patients. Avoid re-inventing the wheel each time there is an outage.
- Install a back-up computer system with paper charts that can be scanned in later.
- If forced to input data in the Electronic record later, make sure to note the circumstance of late entries.
- Use the "Russian Space Utensil" aka a Pencil- works in zero gravity.
- Use a reliable back-up company to store all your data.
- If using your own server, have a contingency plan with redundancy.
- Cloud hosting should keep you protected.
- Hand write prescriptions- there is a pad laying around somewhere.
Bottom line - Plan Ahead - It is inevitable!!
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