Great River Health Formerly known as Fort Madison Community Hospital Enhances Resiliency of MEDITECH EHR Through Healthcare Triangle’s Backup and Disaster Recovery Powered by the Public Cloud

The Client

Great River Health Formerly known as Fort Madison Community Hospital (FMCH) is an integrated health system serving the needs of patients from newborn to geriatrics. They strive to be the best Southeast Iowa healthcare provider focusing on its people, partnership with the community, and quality of service.

The Need

Great River Health has been using the MEDITECH 6.x EHR platform since 2018. This integrated platform provides Great River Health with a single electronic record for all patients they serve across inpatient and ambulatory settings.

The MEDITECH EHR is critical to Great River Health’s operation and losing access to the information and automation it provides would have a significant impact on Great River Health’s ability to care for patients safely and efficiently. 

The Solution

Great River Health selected Healthcare Triangle (formerly Cornerstone Advisors) to implement a public cloud-based backup and disaster recovery solution using Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) highly scalable and cost-effective platform. Healthcare Triangle’s MEDITECH Backup and Disaster Recovery Powered by AWS is a solution for healthcare organizations using MEDITECH. By choosing this solution, Great River Health was able to tap into AWS, the largest public cloud provider in the world, along with the proven healthcare and MEDITECH expertise of Healthcare Triangle giving Great River Health a cost-effective and reliable platform for backup and disaster recovery.

Results

With Healthcare Triangle’s solution and flexible contract terms, Great River Health acheived:

  • Roughly 30% cost savings over comparable private cloud solutions
  • Improved Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and Recovery Time Objective (RTO)
  • With a successful test at implementation, Great River Health’s data is being replicated securely to AWS, providing a scalable and reliable platform for Great River Health to recover to in the event of failure of their primary on-premises infrastructure
  • In addition, Great River Health now enjoys a secured connection to AWS, offering the ability to leverage any of the other many services offered by AWS, ranging from Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) to healthcare specific artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities 

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Client

Great River Health Formerly known as Fort Madison Community Hospital (FMCH)

Sector

Healthcare

Technology

MEDITECH Backup and Disaster Recovery, AWS

...With our information now available on AWS, we know we can quickly and reliably recover from any disruptions and let our caregivers continue to focus on our patients

Shane Tapper,

Chief InformationOfficer at Great River Health Formerly known as Fort Madison Community Hospital

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