title: Disaster recovery for electronic data: are you prepared?
abstract: Disasters that affect medical data may come in many forms, but those that can harm sensitive computer information are not necessarily dramatic. Even so, the problems that can arise if data is lost can be severe. This article discusses the issues of how to recover data once an information technology disaster has occurred and how to prevent or guard against disaster. Not all disasters are preventable, but many are. Even if a disaster is not preventable, certain practices in advance can ease the process of recovery.
authors.affiliation: Decision Systems Group, Thorn 310, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA. dhanauer@dsg.harvard.edu
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Hanauer
mesh_terms: D016494:Computer Security; D004189:Disaster Planning / Q000379:methods*; D011211:Electric Power Supplies; D004560:Electricity; D004868:Equipment Failure; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D011216:Practice Management, Medical; D012984:Software