Essentials?
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• Business continuity management • Compliance
Overall, several steps have been developed as general guidelines as part of the process when creating business continuity plans.
Prepare a Task Force During this initiation phase, the leadership team
must define and identify the different stakeholders and members of the BCP team, as well as a team lead. The team or BCP leader must be familiar with the different departments in the hospital or integrated delivery network (IDN). One must keep in mind that the teams preparing business continuity plans may not necessarily be the pool of individuals who, during a disaster, will assume some of the roles defined in the plan. This BCP team will only be responsible for creating the processes and plans.
Conduct a Business Impact Analysis It is not a simple task to truly know the importance
of a system and its impact on an organization unless it has been properly assessed. This is where organizations such as hospitals find it critical to properly conduct a business impact analysis, or BIA. Part of the BIA process is assessing the financial impact (example: lost revenue from inability to perform medical procedures) and non-financial impact (example: damaged reputation or regulatory non- compliance) due to a business continuity event.
During this step, the BCP team will conduct several assessments, which will identify the following key criteria:
• Critical hospital systems, operations, and services needed
• Potential social, financial, and legal impacts on the organization
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