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Commvault Data Protection for Epic’s Caché Database COMMVAULT’S INTELLISNAP® TECHNOLOGY KEY BENEFITS With the extraordinary amount of protected health information (PHI) being created and stored in Epic electronic medical records (EMRs), healthcare organizations are using Commvault’s IntelliSnap® technology to augment or replace legacy data protection solutions. IntelliSnap seamlessly captures, protects, and backs-up the entire Epic Caché database. • Seamlessly capture, protect, and back-up the entire Epic Caché database in seconds
• Flexible data recovery – recover the entire database at the hardware level or a single file
• Improve business continuity and mitigate PHI risk with instant protection and instant recovery
• Leverage real-time reporting capabilities for Disaster Recovery Planning
• Maximize the value of your hardware investments • Reduce cost and maximize IT resources
It is estimated that 51% of Americans have an Epic electronic health record (EHR) and with nearly 8 out 10 physicians using an EHR, the convenience of EMRs has transformed healthcare. 3,4
Information technology (IT) has the potential to greatly improve the quality of care, reduce medical errors, and improve patient safety.1 With the increased utilization and reliance of technology in healthcare, there is also a host of security and privacy ramifications that compels healthcare to comply with regulatory requirements while being vigilant and proactive about how data is protected, accessed, and shared.
HEALTHCARE CHALLENGES In healthcare, there has been a prevailing and pervasive attitude that it is a mistake to fix something that works. However, with wide-spread use of EMRs, healthcare organizations are acutely aware that they are vulnerable to massive crashes that can impact care. Despite the risk, they know that providers will not tolerate lengthy and complex software integrations that impact their productivity and thus, their profitability. With the increased utilization of EMRs, healthcare is reckoning with legacy applications that do not meet recovery requirements and many organizations do not have the resources to keep up with the latest requirements for data compliance, nor do they have the desire to pay health IT (HIT) experts to be the keepers of PHI. And to make things even more complex, healthcare organization have to simultaneously meet Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) backup regulations while protecting and recovering PHI data according to the EMR vendor’s standards. With Commvault’s IntelliSnap solution (Figure 1), healthcare entities can improve business continuity, have comprehensive data protection, increase storage efficiency and security, and meet regulatory compliance guidelines. COMMVAULT’S INTELLISNAP – THE SOLUTION FOR EPIC’S CACHÉ DATABASE COMMVAULT SOLUTION
HEALTHCARE CHALLENGES
FEATURES
• Data resource management and application, e.g., multiple snapshot-based recovery points throughout the day
• Restore entire file systems and databases within moments of failure without administrative intervention
• Centralized, unified management – recovery operations across systems, applications, and sites
• Multiple recovery options with different retention settings on different storage tiers – disk, tape, cloud
Comprehensive Data Protection
Flexible IT infrastructure for data protection across physical and virtual servers, e.g., SQL and Oracle iDAs
VMs are automatically assigned to new protection policies
Increase Storage Efficiency & Security
Software-based compression and encryption
Embedded deduplication software – minimize network traffic and reduces storage footprint
Meet Regulator & Compliance Guidelines
Long-term archiving
Create retention copies – recovery from any snapshot, back-up, or archive copy
Improve Business Continuity
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1 Institute of Medicine (IOM). 2001. Crossing the Quality Chasm. Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century. Washington, D.C: National Academy Press
HEALTHCARE CHALLENGES • Meeting HIPAA backup regulations • Vulnerable to massive crashes that impact patient care • Lengthy and complex software integrations that impact provider profitability • Legacy applications that do not meet recovery requirements • Protecting and recovery of EMR according to vendor standards • Trained HIT experts that understand PHI security and regulatory data compliance
COST OF AN EHR SYSTEM BEING DOWN
One hour of an EHR being down can cost a hospital $516 per hour per provider. This could be as much as $412,800 per day for a hospital with a 100 providers.1
In 2015, the estimated average cost of an EHR systems being down is $8.60 per minute per provider, which equates to a median across all practice sizes and specialties of almost $516 per hour.2 MINIMIZE THE FREQUENCY, DURATION, AND IMPACT OF DOWN-TIME It is estimated that 51% of Americans have an Epic electronic health record (EHR)3 and with nearly 8 out 10 physicians using an EHR4, the convenience of EMRs has transformed healthcare by reducing medical errors; implementing best-practices standards as they emerge; reducing disparities in care delivery; involving patients in their care; and encouraging the coordinated delivery of healthcare. But with all new technology adoptions there are challenges. Computers are not impervious to damage. With the prodigious amount of PHI being created and stored in EMRs, the lack of a solid data management plan can result in hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal vulnerability, federal fines, and untold repercussions to care coordination. Every healthcare organization has a unique set of business goals and drivers; at Commvault, we focus on a business continuity strategy that takes into consideration your organization’s unique business goals. Protecting individual, identifiable health information does not need to be a game of chance. With Commvault’s IntelliSnap technology, you can reduce risk, maximize the value of your hardware investments, and have a robust data protection and recovery for your Epic EMR.
2 Anderson, M. AC Group: The Costs and Implications of EHR System Downtime on Physician Practices, 2011. [Numbers modified for cumulative rate of inflation in 2015 was 5.7%.] 3 Becker’s Hospital Review 2014: 10 Things to Know About Epic 4 More physicians and hospitals are using EHRs than before (Source: http://www.hhs.gov/news/press/2014pres/08/20140807a.html)
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With Commvault you can minimize the frequency of duration, and impact of down-time (Figure 2). COMMVAULT’S INTELLISNAP – UNIFIED PROTECTION & RECOVERY FOR EPIC’S CACHÉ DATABASE
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