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Case Study 07
Healthcare
Provider
KRI & Business
Impact Assessment
Client Situation
The client
had stalled while attempting to develop a Business
Impact Assessment (BIA) for the 211 Clinical mandate.
They had several financial applications deployed across
145 Departments where profiles existed from many consultants
required to perform this work. Most assessments were
carried out on a one-time basis and the average price
tag of was $350K per annum. Given this huge rate at
which new applications are deployed, 1 per month,
any BIA developed would only be viable for about 4
months. Lastly, given the large number of applications,
unique downtime procedures needed to be developed
and archived for all departments effected by potential
absence of application support.
Approach
- Defined the departmental
structure, applications inventory, and potential
business impacts.
- Defined worksheets along
with underlying rules for rating and score consolidation
- these were configured in the D'RisK application
using our specialized content manager.
- Organizational of units
for KRI capture were also outlined using the Azilon
Matrix Structure
- Rules were created to facilitate
Business Impact Assessment and workflow assigned
- Static User Info was also
constructed against the designation assignment of
business units.
- A BIA involving 87 respondents
was then performed
- IT and Business Unit Downtime
Procedures developed and deployed in the document
management archive and tracked against an ongoing
KRI set.
Benefits |
KRI
automation enabled us to focus down to
the level of unique IT assets (applications)
and to perform the three iterative phases
of BCPDR which are Impact Assessment,
Business Readiness, and Contingency and
Recovery Planning. The KRI provided the
client with the means to maintain this
large body of data current and complete.
It exceeds requirements of the HIPAA regulation
and the Joint Commission for Accrediting
Healthcare Organizations. It helped the
hospital reduce time and effort required
for information capture while speeding
up the entire process of collecting information.
The web interface enabled clinicians and
administrators to collaborate at their
own convenience in getting this complex
information organized and deployed for
enterprise-wide use.
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