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Downtime Defender by Acmeware.

A secure downtime application and report delivery system for the MEDITECH EHR.

Downtime can happen due to system updates, ransomware attacks, network or power outages, or natural disasters.

Downtime Defender assures that mission-critical information necessary for continuity of care and business operations remains available during downtime events. Our application produces regularly scheduled current-state report snapshots from across the MEDITECH EHR, formatted in easy-to-read PDF documents, and securely stores them locally and in the cloud for guaranteed access during planned or unplanned downtime.

Make Downtime Defender part of your continuity of care plan.

+ - + "It becomes chaos, unless you have a plan, such as putting paper-based documentation strategies and logistics in place." Click to collapse

When systems are down, clinicians don't know the last time medicines were administered and cannot communicate internally…particularly vulnerable are pharmacy, labs, and patient identification.

Katherine Zigmont, AHRQ Patient Safety Organization clinical liaison nurse. Stories From the Field, Academic Medical Center PSO: Mitigating the Risks of Electronic Health Record Down Time.https://pso.ahrq.gov/with_pso/stories

+ - + "EHRs are the primary platform for tracking patients and their associated clinical information, and without these capabilities, clinicians face difficulties." Click to collapse

To prepare for downtime hospitals must implement and practice downtime procedures, refine basic paper processes and remove redundancies.

Ethan Larsen, Allan Fong, Christian Wernz, Raj M Ratwani, Implications of electronic health record downtime: an analysis of patient safety event reports, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, Volume 25, Issue 2, February 2018, Pages 187–191, https://doi.org/10.1093/jamia/ocx057

+ - + "A successful transition to downtime operations requires that staff have well designed downtime tools readily at hand that mirror normal processes and systems." Click to collapse

Hospital Preparedness for Unplanned Information Technology Downtime Events, Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Disaster Medicine, July 2018

Learn how Anderson Hospital uses Downtime Defender.

Click the tabs below to see standard reports included with Downtime Defender.

Census

Inpatient and ED census, including allergies and problems

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Pharmacy MAR

Medication administration record, including past 24 hours, current, and upcoming

dd screenshot mar

Clinical documentation

PCS documentation, including interventions and notes

dd screenshot pcs

Labs

Lab tests and results

dd screenshot labs

Orders

Includes pending and active orders

dd om report

Scheduling

Upcoming surgery, outpatient, and ambulatory appointments

dd screenshot scheduling

Human Resources

Active employee contact info

dd hr report

Materials Management

Vendor contact info and purchase order history

dd mm report

Status dashboard

At-a-glance status of downtime report status

dd screenshot status

Custom Reports

In addition to the standard reports, we can customize Downtime Defender with purpose-built reports for your organization and your specific workflow. Here's what we've already built for our clients:

Order Hold Queue: Displays all orders that are on hold due to other patient-related activities (imaging procedures, patient-fasting, or surgical procedures.
Lab Orders Worklist: Displays lab specimen and test information for lab staff reference and documentation and processing during downtime.

Downtime Defender: a complete solution.

Available for all MEDITECH versions with or without a cloud platform
Report delivery to your data center, the cloud, and your specified on-premises workstations
Secure and HIPAA-compliant reports, encrypted and optionally password-protected as .PDF files
Efficiently produced from Data Repository for more frequent updates with no performance degradation for MEDITECH end-users
Intranet-based report viewer allows for easy ad-hoc data review, selectable by facility, location, or patient account
Built-in dashboard for report status and data latency monitoring and alerting
Our combination of point-in-time data with future scheduled items provides a complete view of current and projected patient activity
Purposely designed and optimized with clinician input: patient-centric layout on paper becomes part of the chart during downtime events
Extensible reporting infrastructure allows for ongoing development of new reports and integration of third-party data
Flexible application and report configuration options to meet your specific needs and workflow
The best value among downtime solutions for the MEDITECH EHR

Case Study: Anderson Hospital

For more information about Downtime Defender, or to schedule a demonstration, contact us today.

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