Business Impact Analysis

Most hospitals do not fully understand the importance of the services provided by the Information Technology department until something goes wrong. The Business Impact Analysis (BIA) is a business case study to determine the financial and operational impact from the loss of critical systems, applications and data. This provides the executives with the information they need to make a business decision as to the recovery strategy and how much risk they are willing to take.

Key areas addressed:

• What are the mission critical applications?
• How long can the departments be without them?
• What are the financial and operational impacts from loss of these applications?
• What constitutes a disaster?
• What are the interdependencies?
• What are the minimum hardware and network requirements to recover the critical applications?
• What are the recovery strategy options available to meet these requirements?