A Business Continuity Plan (BCP) defines the who, what, when, and where for how your medical practice personnel are to respond to a disruption of their normal operations. More specifically, the BCP includes a predetermined set of procedures and documentation that defines the resources, actions, tasks, data, and processing priorities required to manage business continuity of your practice and restoration processes in the event of an incident. An incident can come in many forms: a simple power outage due to a storm that only last a several hours; a hurricane that knocks out all power in your region for a couple of days; a ransomware attack that takes hold of your entire computer system including EHRs that will take days if not weeks to resolve.
