Ransomware. Server failure. Natural disaster. Power outage. Any of these can shut down your practice for days — or permanently. GCS provides HIPAA-compliant backup, tested disaster recovery, and business continuity planning that guarantees your patient data is always recoverable and your practice is always operational.
HIPAA requires addressable encryption for ePHI at rest and in transit, documented backup procedures, and tested recovery capability. Most practices have backup — but have never tested whether their backup actually works. We test ours monthly.
All backup data encrypted at rest and in transit — meeting HIPAA Security Rule requirements for ePHI protection
Every backup automatically verified for completeness and restorability — not just "completed successfully" but actually testable
Database-aware backups for Epic, Cerner, eClinicalWorks, and athenahealth — capturing application state, not just files
Backup copies that cannot be altered, encrypted, or deleted by ransomware — even if an admin account is compromised
When your EMR goes down, the question is not whether you have backups — it is how fast you can see patients again. We define exact recovery targets, put them in writing, and test them monthly to prove we can meet them.
Your EMR, servers, and clinical workstations restored to full operation within 4 hours — from any scenario including ransomware, hardware failure, or site disaster.
With 15-minute incremental snapshots, you lose at most 15 minutes of clinical documentation. For EMR databases, we achieve near-zero RPO with continuous replication.
A business continuity plan is not just IT — it covers your entire practice operations during a disruption. Who calls whom. Which systems come back first. How patients are notified. Where staff work if the building is inaccessible. We build and test all of it.
Written plan covering critical systems, recovery priorities, communication chain, and role assignments — reviewed and updated quarterly
EMR first, then scheduling, then billing, then admin — recovery order based on patient care impact, not random
If your office is inaccessible, providers can see patients via telehealth within hours — pre-configured and tested
Pre-written notification templates for appointment rescheduling, practice status updates, and alternate care instructions
A single backup copy is not backup — it is a single point of failure. We implement the 3-2-1 rule for every medical practice: three copies of your data, on two different storage types, with one copy off-site. This ensures no single event — fire, flood, ransomware, or hardware failure — can destroy all copies.
Datto appliance on-site for fast local recovery — full server restore in minutes
Every backup replicated to encrypted cloud storage in a separate geographic region
If your office is destroyed, your EMR spins up in the cloud within 1 hour
Off-site copies are immutable — ransomware cannot encrypt or delete them
A backup you have never tested is a backup you cannot trust. We perform full disaster recovery tests every month — restoring your EMR, verifying clinical workflows, and documenting results for HIPAA compliance audits.
Complete server and EMR restoration from backup to isolated test environment — verifying data integrity, application functionality, and recovery time.
Monthly — all passedSimulated ransomware attack with full rollback from immutable snapshots — proving recovery without paying ransom and measuring actual recovery time.
Quarterly — $0 ransomsPrimary site simulated failure with EMR and critical systems failing over to cloud infrastructure — verifying patients can be seen during a total site loss.
Semi-annual — verifiedThat is the average ransomware recovery time for healthcare organizations without proper DR. Our free backup assessment evaluates your current strategy, identifies gaps, and builds a recovery plan that guarantees your practice is back in 4 hours — not 23 days.