Clinical Care Resilience Planning Is Not a Passive Act

Downtime in a hospital can happen for a number of reasons: Sometimes, it’s scheduled, and care teams received enough warning to plan for it. Other times, it can be an unplanned IT outage or an actual system disruption from a cyberattack, a third-party dependency being unavailable or a natural disaster. Whatever the case, healthcare organizations must be prepared to stay operational during downtime. Otherwise, they could face serious patient care and financial setbacks that can shutter entire facilities.  Clinical care resilience must therefore be as active and deeply ingrained as any…