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Blackout Blueprint keeps hospitals operational during system failures, cyberattacks, and disasters—ensuring patient care, supply chain, and revenue cycle continuity.
Blackout Blueprint keeps hospitals operational during system failures, cyberattacks, and disasters—ensuring patient care, supply chain, and revenue cycle continuity.
Cyberattacks, disasters, and IT failures aren’t just inconvenient—they’re life-threatening. Relying on IT recovery alone isn’t enough. Hospitals must prepare for extended downtimes with operational continuity strategies. Here are a few fast facts to consider.
Average downtime experienced after a ransomware attack. (Source: HIPAA Journal)
Revenue lost per day on average from hospital downtime.
Proportion of hospital leaders who say their disaster recovery and business continuity plans are not fully operational in a real-world event. (Source: HIMSS Healthcare Cybersecurity Survey)
Percentage of healthcare organizations that have suffered an IT-related disruption in the past two years. (Source: Ponemon Institute)
Blackout Blueprint is operational downtime preparedness. Hospitals can’t afford to “figure it out” in the moment. Blackout Blueprint makes sure they already know what to do.
Ensures hospitals function for days or weeks without IT systems.
Provides playbooks for clinical, revenue cycle, and supply chain teams.
Runs real-world crisis simulations to test and refine plans.
Delivers continuous updates with managed resiliency services.
Our proven framework helps hospitals prepare, test, and sustain operations through any crisis.
Unlike standard IT disaster recovery, Blackout Blueprint ensures hospitals operate seamlessly—without IT.
Keep critical treatments, pharmacy, and emergency care running while ensuring billing, payroll, and supply chain continuity—so both patients and operations stay on track during downtime.
Equip every department with clear, tested workflows that eliminate confusion, reduce errors, and streamline crisis response—so your teams know exactly what to do when IT systems fail.
Demonstrate preparedness to patients, staff, and regulators with a proactive, documented approach—protecting your hospital’s reputation, compliance, and long-term resilience.
Our proven framework helps hospitals prepare, test, and sustain operations through any crisis.
Blackout Blueprint is built for every corner of the healthcare industry.
Ensuring frontline healthcare teams can continue treating patients during IT system failures.
• Hospitals & Health Systems – Maintaining operations in emergency rooms, ICUs, surgical departments, and inpatient/outpatient care settings.
• Pharmacies & Labs – Keeping medications, test results, and diagnostic services available even when digital systems are down.
• Clinical & Nursing Leadership – Ensuring care teams have clear, actionable protocols to manage patients without EHR access.
Protecting the financial and operational backbone of hospitals during prolonged downtime.
• Finance & Revenue Cycle Teams – Keeping billing, payroll, and reimbursement processes functional despite IT disruptions.
• Supply Chain & Logistics – Ensuring continuous access to medical supplies, equipment, and vendor relationships.
• Operations, HR & Risk Management – Helping hospitals meet regulatory requirements and mitigate legal, financial, and reputational risks in crisis situations.
Helping you prepare, test, and sustain operations throughout any crisis.
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Traditional DR and BCP focus on restoring IT systems, but they don’t prepare hospitals to function while systems are down. Blackout Blueprint fills this gap by developing department-specific downtime playbooks, real-world crisis simulations, and managed resiliency services that ensure clinical and business operations continue, even without digital systems.
Hospitals are prime targets for cyberattacks, with ransomware incidents increasing patient mortality rates by 25-35%. Additionally, unplanned IT downtime can cost up to $1.85 million per day, with operational disruptions impacting everything from patient safety to revenue cycle management. Blackout Blueprint helps hospitals prepare proactively so they can operate safely during extended outages.
Blackout Blueprint is designed for hospital leadership, clinical teams, and administrative functions, including:
• Executives (CEOs, COOs, CMOs, CFOs, CIOs) – Ensuring organization-wide resiliency.
• Clinical Teams (Doctors, Nurses, Pharmacy, Lab Staff) – Maintaining patient care workflows.
• Finance & Revenue Cycle Teams – Keeping billing, payroll, and reimbursements running.
• Supply Chain & Operations Leaders – Ensuring uninterrupted access to medical supplies.
We use a four-step framework to ensure your hospital is fully prepared:
1️⃣ Assess & Identify Gaps – Business Impact Analysis (BIA) of downtime vulnerabilities.
2️⃣ Develop Custom Playbooks – Clear, tested workflows for clinical, revenue, and supply chain teams.
3️⃣ Run Real-World Simulations – Tabletop exercises to test crisis response plans before disaster strikes.
4️⃣ Manage & Continuously Improve – Ongoing updates and managed resiliency services to ensure compliance and readiness.
No system can prevent cyberattacks entirely, but Blackout Blueprint ensures your hospital can function even if one occurs. While IT teams work to restore affected systems, Blackout Blueprint provides clear action plans for staff, alternative workflows for patient care, and operational continuity strategies that reduce financial and reputational damage.
The initial assessment and playbook development typically take a few months, but the timeline depends on hospital size, existing preparedness, and customization needs. Ongoing management and training are available to ensure your resiliency plan remains up to date as hospital systems and risks evolve.
Let’s build a Blackout Blueprint for your hospital before the next disruption happens. Fill out the form below to request a free Readiness Assessment, or to schedule a consultation with the team at Healthlink Advisors.