Head over to CTO Magazine to hear Chao gives a comprehensive explanation of the problems plaguing today’s healthcare organizations when it comes to protecting themselves against cyberattacks and other forms of EHR downtime. As she explains in the article, “They pour energy into spotting threats and cleaning up messes, but they rarely tackle the heart of the issue: keeping everything running, no matter what.” Instead of responding to each crisis, cybersecurity has to be baked into the infrastructure in the same way backup generators or fire alarms are considered standard features of hospital safety.
She goes on to elaborate on how Spare Tire is purpose-built to keep healthcare running using several key principles:
- Non-invasive integration: The integration is hands-off. No extra strain on production systems, no code changes needed.
- Zero-trust alignment: It’s built around zero-trust principles, namely strict identity checks, encryption everywhere and minimal access for everyone.
- Segmentation: The Spare Tire system is totally separate, so if attackers get in, they can’t move sideways.
- Performance neutrality: Syncing happens in the background, so clinical work isn’t slowed down.
One of the biggest negative impacts of an EHR going down is providers have to resort to pen and paper recordkeeping, which eventually has to be manually reentered once the system is functional again. It can take weeks to have the data entry fully complete at great expense to the organization. But Spare Tire is built with bidirectional sync so every clinical action recorded in Spare Tire is queued up for auto-syncing once the main EHR is active again. Each item is timestamped and versioned so the records are clear about which clinical note is the most up-to-date.
You can read a much deeper dive into the nuances of how Spare Tire meets the needs of today’s EHR downtime challenges in the full article.
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