HIPAA compliance

Federal reorganizations rarely earn a spot on anyone's task list, and for a rural hospital IT department that is often one or two people, that instinct is usually correct. Most of them move boxes on an org chart and change nothing about the work.

You have been placed in charge of disaster recovery planning at your rural health care facility. Maybe someone told you to "create our DRP." Maybe it landed on your desk because you are the IT person. Or maybe you drew the short straw at the last staff meeting.

Here is what nobody told you: you have just been handed a responsibility that touches every IT system, every compliance requirement, and every department in your organization. And the traditional approaches everyone will point you toward were not built for you.