What's your Healthcare IT outage response plan when the power goes out?

Improving the resiliency and redundancy of your infrastructure is important, but having a HealthCare IT outage response plan matters just as much. Here are some fundamentals to inform your design and guide remediation in your environments!

• Assess the age, load, and alarm status of your UPSs. Make plans to modernize units that meet your organization's criteria.

• Audit 𝗱𝗼𝘄𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺 power topology - Your investment in redundancy & reliability is no good if your cabling topology is flawed. Device inputs should be split in A/B feeds where dual feeds are possible, and supplied via an ATS where not. This is 𝗹𝗼𝘄 𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗿𝘂𝗶𝘁 to improve reliability.

• Audit 𝘂𝗽𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺 power topology (prolonged loss of power) - After a loss of power your generators should be coming online and on the bus soon... but if your UPSs aren't supplied by an emergency panel your loads will drop after batteries are fully discharged. 

• Create a matrix of upstream power sources - This is especially useful when an outage occurs in a localized portion of the hospital's distribution. Clear documentation - makes clear communication - improves response. 

"Input power for UPS 42, fed from panel 2ECRT has been lost" is a lot better than "Our IDF has no power"

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗾𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗱𝗼 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗿𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 & 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀?

𝗪𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗸𝗶𝗰𝗸𝗼𝗳𝗳 𝗮 𝟭:𝟭 𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘂𝘀? 𝗦𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗹𝗲 𝗮 𝗾𝘂𝗶𝗰𝗸 𝟭𝟱-𝗺𝗶𝗻𝘂𝘁𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘂𝘀 𝘃𝗶𝗮 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗹𝘆! 

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