Your Practice Perfect data is one of the most important assets for your practice. If you are without your data, your practice cannot function, and inevitably, revenue will be lost. Who do you turn to when you lose a file, are attacked by ransomware, or have a server crash? If you’re hosting a server locally and think Practice Perfect has a copy of your data, they do not.

There are many reasons for lost data: human error, theft, software corruption, hard drive impairment, malware and viruses, ransomware, power failure, and natural disasters. However, the more important question is – how are you going to get your data back when loss occurs? If data is not recoverable, 51% of businesses close within 2 years of the incident. The impact of data loss could ultimately close your business, so a reliable backup is a priority–not an afterthought.

You need to have a game plan also known as a disaster recovery plan. A successful disaster recovery plan allows you to restore your data and resume normal operations with minimal downtime following any type of data loss. An effective data backup strategy is a key component to the plan. It is imperative to have copies of your data backed up both locally and in the cloud. Think of your cloud backup for disaster recovery and local backup for immediate retrieval.

There are many backup companies out there, but Practice Perfect has done the homework for you. Here is a checklist of the features required for your data cloud backup service:

– Automatic and encrypted (at least 128bit encryption certified)

– National Institute of Standards and Technology FIPS 140-2 encryption certified

– HIPAA and PIPEDA compliant

– Retention rule of at least 30 days with extra generations

– Validation of backed up data to ensure it is restorable

– Ability to perform test restores
– Notification of backup status

And the checklist of the features required for successful local hard drive backup:

– At least 7 days of retention with additional generations
– At least a 500GB external hard drive
– Automatic and encrypted (at least 128bit AES)
– Stored data in compressed format
– Notification of backup status

Important tip: Some backup companies’ protocol have the backups going to the local hard drive first and not until it’s completed, will the cloud backup initiate using throttled bandwidth. Because the bandwidth is throttled, large amounts of data going to the cloud can take an extremely long time. You want a company that doesn’t throttle bandwidth and backs up your data off-site first, then to the local drive. If a disaster occurs, the most important backup is the cloud copy.

Based on above features, Practice Perfect took the time to find the right backup provider for your critical EMR data. Practice Perfect recommends DataHEALTH, a leading backup provider in North America, who meets and exceeds these checklists.

Think of your backup strategy as an insurance policy. Just like when you buy a house, a car, or anything of value, you spend money on a quality insurance policy in case of a disaster. The same is true for your data. Contact DataHEALTH today to receive 10% off the monthly cloud backup service fee for the life of the account and they will also waive the one-time setup fee for the FREE local backup configuration. Promotion ends Monday, May 1, 2023. DataHEALTH can be reached at 888-656-3282, Option 1 or click the button below.

---