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We have six sites (soon to be seven) external to our data center. If there is a short term (shorter time than DR calls for) WAN outage all but one site on the same campus will loose connectivity. Does CPS have any ability to push a CCD-like document/database to a computer at the sites they could print off to see patients should the system go down?
Thanks,
Steve
Posted : June 22, 2016 2:12 am
Steve, I don't see why you couldn't do that. How would you want it setup though a CCD for every patient on a clinic computer? or only the ones coming in that day? Also Summit Software has something they are working on you may want to look at.
You may also want to look at having redundant WAN connections at each clinic with different paths out.
Posted : June 26, 2016 10:32 am
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At this point multi-homing the clinics is not financially doable, although our data center has redundant connections. Plus, that would only protect from a WAN outage and I just included that as one example. I was not aware that Summit had an offering that might be beneficial, I'll look into that.
Steve
Posted : June 27, 2016 3:45 am
To second Bovie, some redundant connectivity would be nice, bonus points if you can get diverse physical paths. This is not always financially feasible as you pointed out, or even available in rural areas. What you are describing is usually available from EHR vendors that play in the inpatient space. Usually the setup is - PC + local usb printer, both on UPS + emergency power (if you don't have a generator, a good size UPS is needed). The software installed would pull data for patients for the last 24-48 hours (in a hospital setting, in your case you probably want the patients to be seen that day) to the PC from the EMR and it would be available in case the power, or connectivity is out. All is stored in a folder which gets auto cleaned at preset intervals. If you could get CPS to generate and save reports to a shared folder and script some auto purging I guess it could be done.
Posted : June 27, 2016 4:23 am
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If you look up "rural" in the dictionary - it lists us 🙂
All sites have backup power so the only issue is getting the info for "today's" patients at their site where it can be printed if needed. One of my staff has an idea that we can run by our primary care Medical Director.
Steve
Posted : June 27, 2016 6:07 am
