Learning Outcome: Design enterprise-wide strategic planning and information management tools and resources for mission-critical business decisions.

Your text introduces many functional areas related to EHR implementation. One related area is disaster recovery and contingency planning. 

There have been many lessons learned from disasters such as the Joplin, Missouri tornado, Hurricane Sandy, Hurricane Irene, the Boston bombing, the Ebola and Zika crisis. How have hospital's IT departments learned from or changed their processes in the wake of these types of disasters?-or have they?

What policies and backup plans would you recommend to have in place in the event that your IT system was not available? Use examples from these or other situations in your responses.