Quickly assembling available staff, staying compliant with strict regulations, protecting IT and business functions against disruption, and maintaining resiliency in an environment where the unexpected is common are critical responsibilities hospital management and continuity planners face in the healthcare industry.
Programs like the Hospital Incident Command System (HICS) serve as an important foundation for a hospital’s effort to prepare for and respond to various types of disasters. Its principles account for every detail involved in the vast lifecycle of any type of incident — and the communications required to make it work. An automated notification solution to apply these principles to a hospital’s continuity program will go a long way. An intelligent, battle-tested automated solution will go even further.
LDRPS (Living Disaster Recovery Planning System) One Solution Fits All
Is LDRPS the right solution for your hospital? Simply put, it can be scaled appropriately to fit hospitals and hospital networks of any size, no matter where they enter the continuity program planning cycle. It was built around a very basic principle — a hospital’s requirements change over time. A tool that accommodates this change and can be customized is imperative.
For smaller hospitals, this could mean starting with an On-Demand (Software as a Service) version with little or no customization and have it grow with your requirements. A larger hospital or hospital network on the other hand will be able to take advantage of its customizing capabilities, having many “daily” or “weekly” functions done automatically. Organizations of any size will benefit from planning with a relational database. Consider how often staff leave or move within the organization. Or how often technologies, telecommunications, vendors, and suppliers change. LDRPS automates plan building and facilitates plan maintenance by keeping change control in check.
SunGard Continuity Management Solution LDRPS is part of the SunGard Continuity Management Solution, a comprehensive software offering that helps your hospital manage the entire lifecycle of its continuity program.
The SunGard Continuity Management Solution leverages a common platform that enables data consistency across multiple planning, testing and execution-management processes, as well as seamless enterprise reporting.
This flexible solution can be customized to fit your hospital’s specific needs. Building on the strength and functionality of the core platform, independent modules can be added over time as the continuity management requirements of your hospital expand or change.
SunGard’s NotiFind for Hospitals
SunGard’s NotiFind for Hospitals helps you effectively communicate with and manage your doctors, nurses, administrators, public safety officials, and other resources to facilitate operations and staffing in the fast paced, urgent, and often unpredictable hospital environment. This solution focuses on the recovery of the entire hospital organization during an incident, helps maintain resiliency, and helps link IT and hospital operations through communications in order to provide quality health care services.
NotiFind for Hospitals is also fully integrated with LDRPS for Hospitals through a continually running service that checks for updates to LDRPS data and transfers the changes real time to NotiFind, keeping your most critical contact data up to date.
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