While healthcare practitioners tend to be competent providers of health-related services, they do struggle with improving operations, serving more patents, and ultimately generating more income. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) has complicated this effort, requiring any business that maintains patient records to implement a broad array of patient privacy and disaster recovery… Continue reading Compliance & Disaster Proof Hardware: Fireproof Waterproof Hard Drives for Electronic Medical Record

Thewaves of change in emergency management have been numerous sinceSept. 11, 2001. As direct result from these events, Louisiana’sstate and local governments were asked to assess and make changes totheir emergency preparedness efforts. This study will examine how thecurrent governor is prepared to deal with potential disasters, whathas been done in the areas of threat… Continue reading The Difference a Hurricane Can Make: The Change of Louisiana’s Emergency Preparedness Effort

In the early morning hours of Feb. 27, 2010, an 8.8 magnitude earthquake rocked the Republic of Chile. It was the fifth largest earthquake recorded since the beginning of the twentieth century. Over the next few hours, it became clear that an earthquake of such size could set off a tsunami capable of threatening Hawaii,… Continue reading The Next Generation of Mass Notification Software: How to bring your EN strategy up to date

How to demonstrate measurable ROI from the implementation of an effective BCM tool. Introduction In the economic landscape of today, it is no news to anyone that we see companies that have been in business for generations closing their doors.  Organizations that remain are forced to have leaner operations, coordinate just-in-time inventory levels and manage… Continue reading What can your BCM Tool do for you?

As emerging markets have taken center stage in the global economy, so too have the associated risks. Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRIC) as well as Africa are seeing more growth while the US economy is lagging behind these emerging economies. Therefore, investors are eager to finance mega deals in these countries, assuming that the… Continue reading Business Continuity in Emerging Markets

So far most simulations we’ve encountered in business continuity and disaster recovery planning have been limited to the table top variety conducted at a conference or perhaps coordinated within your organization internally. Such events typically involve groups of people role playing to act out events of a pretend disaster situation. It’s a useful way to… Continue reading Computer based Modeling and Simulation for BC/DR

The benefits of an emergency notification system are easily diminished with the wrong choice of words – whether too many or not enough, imprecise wording can lead to panic and confusion rather than awareness and clarity. The message you send is just as important as having the right system to send it. Emergency communication has… Continue reading Words Count in Emergency Notification

As we end 2009 and usher in 2010, the famous “Auld Lang Syne” originally written by Scottish poet Robert Burns in 1788 comes to mind. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the song, it is normally sung, danced, and reveled at the stroke of midnight on New Year’s Eve all over the world… Continue reading ‘Auld Lang Syne’ – Forging the Link and Building the Chain