This Healthcare Innovation Quick Chat explores how hospitals and health systems can maintain safe, effective medication management during EHR (Electronic Health Record) downtime caused by planned outages, cyberattacks, or other unexpected disruptions. Dr. Colin Banas, Chief Medical Officer of DrFirst, discusses the patient safety risks associated with losing access to electronic prescribing tools, medication histories, and clinical decision support. He also highlights the importance of proactive downtime planning, clinician preparedness, and mobile prescribing solutions. Viewers will learn why downtime resilience is a critical patient care issue, how organizations can reduce prescribing disruptions, and what steps healthcare leaders should take to ensure continuity of care when systems become unavailable.

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