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This is the 2nd 2010 quarterly Information Technology newsletter by IMPRESARIO MEDICAL SOFTWARE CORPORATION (IMSC), published for the El Paso and surrounding area healthcare community. With over 17 years of experience supporting and providing solutions to the El Paso area medical community, we want to let you know that you have a local resource of expertise and software solutions. Our goal is that through this newsletter, we can provide the El Paso region medical community important information that might affect your practice. We hope that you enjoy and learn about the many new things presented here that may help you prepare your practice for coming change sooner than later.

Text Box: Based on our experience, most medical practices DO NOT have a Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP). It is critical for all medical practices to be aware of the need for a disaster recovery solution. As you may know, HIPAA requires every medical entity to have a disaster recovery plan to allow a practice to recover patient data in case of a catastrophic event. The most important fact about not having a data disaster recovery plan is that your practice and your patients may be negatively affected by the loss of this data. We highly recommend that you put in place a disaster recovery plan to ensure your practice can go on after a disaster. This plan should include a process that allows a current back up to be stored off site. There are many options available, including local backup with a tape or disk backup taken off site or a remote backup via Internet where backups are done remotely. If done properly either option is good but should include some kind of validation process. An office that has implemented Electronic Medical Records, Electronic Document Management and other electronic processes, is better able to implement a DRP because their patient records and documents are electronic. This should be one of the critical reasons a practice should seriously consider taking steps to implement electronic automation. If you are interested in more information about DRP, call us at IMSC so that you can find out more about how to implement a successful Disaster Data Recovery Plan.

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