Deploying a secondary recovery site for a regional hospital network, enabling patient-record failover in under four minutes.
The hospital network’s patient records and imaging systems ran from a single site with no disaster recovery plan. A primary site outage — power failure, hardware fault, or environmental incident — meant clinicians would lose access to patient records entirely, with no defined process for restoring service.
Any solution had to work within a hospital IT budget that couldn’t support a full enterprise-grade secondary data centre, while still protecting the systems that most directly affected patient care.
Rather than replicate the full primary facility, the recovery site was scoped specifically around the systems that directly affect patient care.
Systems ranked by impact on patient care to prioritize what the DR site needed to cover.
A right-sized recovery facility for patient records and imaging systems specifically.
Failover configured to activate automatically rather than requiring manual intervention.
Clinical systems isolated from general hospital administrative network traffic.
Recovery time validated through simulated outage testing before go-live.
A clear, documented process for hospital IT staff during an actual failover event.
"Patient records staying accessible isn’t an IT nice-to-have for us, it’s a patient safety issue. IBHAMU scoped a recovery site that protected what actually mattered within a budget we could defend."
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