Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Management
Due to technical glitches, acts of terrorism and natural disasters, organizations need disaster recovery and business continuity management. Healthcare is a service that cannot afford to stop especially during disasters. Anthelio steps in to get an organization back on its feet as soon as possible, and helps it meet the demand for continuous service - by patients, employees, shareholders, suppliers, regulatory agencies and medical/general insurance companies.
Anthelio offers combinations of tactical consulting with business continuity planning and management software, including full continuity management services and hot-site (a fully equipped, operationally ready data center offering specific hardware platforms ready for almost immediate use when the service provider is notified of a disaster) facilities. Anthelio assists its clients with its disaster recovery plans by:
- Conducting an IT business impact analysis
- Assessing and implementing preventive measures
- Developing disaster recovery plans for in-scope services
- Integrating the contingency plans with the client ’s emergency response and business continuity plans
- Assisting in the organization of disaster management and response teams
Our services include:
- Data backup and recovery
- Risk assessments and risk mitigation strategies
- Development of a custom recovery/contingency plan that complies with all regulatory agency requirements (e.g., Joint Commission, HIPAA, CMS, CAP)
- Complete annual exercises to test disaster recovery plans, score the results and deliver continuous improvement
The team at Anthelio will also build and maintain a complete technology inventory for each client facility, and supply an emergency operations center to execute command and control of disaster plan execution and recovery during a catastrophe.
Anthelio furnishes Disaster Recovery services to its clients by using a combined optional Sunguard approach and an internal strategy for high availability that enables recovery within minutes or hours of a disaster.
Healthcare providers have always secured resources for ensuring the availability of service in the face of disasters. Since Congress adopted the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) in 1996, the U.S. healthcare industry (healthcare plans, providers, and clearinghouses) has also had to implement standardized electronic claims and payment systems. They formed the basis of continuity strategies.
A business continuity plan outlines the strategic framework to recover quickly from a crisis. Anthelio manages an organization's recovery regardless of the scale of cause, restoring its critical services and suppliers.
Disaster Recovery Assessment
A high-pressure environment like a hospital and an evolved IT dependence by healthcare warrants a cost-effective approach to IT and disaster recovery assessments. Anthelio offers its Disaster Recovery Assessment to help an organization build an efficient disaster recovery plan that addresses hardware, software, IT facilities, procedures and personnel.
Anthelio works in conjunction with an organization to identify the risks, define its objectives, understand its expectations and requirements, help with the right tools and methods to quantify its loss after understanding what it is capable of currently, and recommends the future course of action after mapping the findings to its goals and analyze gaps.
Business Continuity Assessment
At Anthelio, the team forms a strong basis of business impact analysis and risk assessment before developing and implementing the plan. The team gives an organization a comprehensive understanding of business continuity management, and assists it in formulating its business continuity plan with its business continuity assessment.
The team goes through everything in an organization's facility: infrastructure, personnel, security, electronic data, lab equipment, suppliers, patients, insurance, public relations and helps it in identifying gaps in its approach to business resilience. The team compiles and evaluates data and presents its findings to the organization. The findings provide the healthcare organization with satisfaction of knowing that it is resilient to risks and threats. And if the healthcare organization is not ready, the team at Anthelio formulates plans to ensure that the organization and its employees are risk ready.
Server-based Disaster Recovery
Anthelio ensures that an organization's servers are designed to provide high scalability and the internal system is designed to eliminate most single points of failure. It also highlights redundant power supplies, cooling devices and hot-swappable internal disk devices. Most importantly, it ensures that the client's data is backed-up regularly. Anthelio provides server space as a service.
Anthelio's expert team plans, configures and implements a server-based recovery plan that is customized - the team covers an organization's network, LAN and Internet. In case a disaster strikes and the server dies, Anthelio restores the server through its means that include storage pool backups, database, and mirrored volumes.
