Cottage Hospital Addresses HMS System And Network Downtime By Implementing Summit Healthcare's Downtime Reporting System

Cottage Hospital, located in Woodsville New Hampshire, has adopted Summit Healthcare's Downtime Reporting System (DRS) to meet its business continuity needs and the data protection requirements that come alongside disaster recovery efforts. With 25 licensed acute beds, the health system serves hundreds of inpatients each year. The Summit Downtime Reporting System(DRS) will ensure access to critical patient data in the event of a HMS system or Network downtime.

Summit DRS can support business continuity strategies by providing both clinical and non-clinical users with a snapshot of critical information regardless of planned or unplanned downtime. Report generation and data capture tools provide the snapshots of vital data, while sophisticated data encryption and secure delivery tools protect information and give healthcare providers access to content.

Cottage Hospital’s implementation of the Summit Downtime Reporting System builds upon the already strong relationship with Summit Healthcare. Over the past few years Cottage Hospital has successfully implemented the Summit Express Connect interface engine as well as the Summit Scripting Toolkit to meet their integration and automation needs.

“Business continuity efforts continue to be at the forefront of the healthcare industry’s increasing dependence of electronic health records.” says Rick Frederick, Director of Information Technology at Cottage Hospital. "The decision to install the Summit Downtime Reporting System technology was an easy one. Providing extraordinary care to each and every patient is a goal of ours at Cottage Hospital, and the Summit DRS solution will help ensure us this level of care at all times.”

“Summit Healthcare is pleased to expand upon our partnership with Cottage Hospital by supporting their business continuity needs with our Downtime Reporting Solution technology.” says Ted Rossi, CEO of Summit Healthcare. “With healthcare initiatives encouraging dependence on electronic data, there continues to be a vast need for addressing network and system downtime.”

About Cottage Hospital 
Cottage Hospital is 25-bed critical access hospital located in Woodsville, NH, serves the Upper Connecticut River Valley and runs the HMS healthcare information system. The Cottage family has over 250 employees, 37 active medical staff providers and 35 volunteers. For more information, visit www.cottagehospital.org.

About Summit Healthcare 
Summit Healthcare is the choice of hospitals and providers who want to take full control of their healthcare systems integration and information management requirements. Since 1999, we have worked to provide the industry with the most flexible integration technology with complimentary tailored services and solutions. For more information, visit www.summit-healthcare.com.