Offsite HIPAA Data Centers Are Key to Health Organization Disaster Recovery

Offsite Data Centers are Key to Healthcare’s Disaster Recovery

Catastrophes can happen at anytime and anywhere.  Just ask the staff and patients at the Moore Medical Center in Moore, Oklahoma, where last month a deadly tornado struck the medical facility, leaving it unsalvageable.

In October 2012, we saw how Hurricane Sandy affected hospitals when New York University Langone Medical Center and New York City’s Bellevue Hospital had to shut down operations and transfer patients to nearby hospitals due to power outages and backup generator failure.

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