McKesson announces launch of disaster recovery system

McKesson announced this week that it has launched its disaster recovery service that will help health care organizations uphold their mission-critical capabilities when disasters strike.

The Disaster Recovery Service (DSR) is offered in tiers and is a cost-efficient system that can be catered to fill the needs and budgets of small to average-sized hospitals.

According to a recent study, 82 percent of health care IT administrators believe that their establishments are not entirely prepared to provide patient data in full if the facilities met with unplanned system outages or disasters. Health care organizations that were forced to endure unplanned systems outages in the last year paid an average of $432,000 per incident.

Having developed a service model that focuses on disaster recovery, McKesson offers an affordable solution that provides a duplication and infrastructure recovery system for the virtual environment of health care organizations to make sure that important data will be safe and accessible. McKesson’s recovery system supports a wide variety of storage systems when traditional recovery systems do not, allowing its users to save their data across multiple platforms.

McKesson has released a DRS Core or DRS Plus level of service based on the needs of health care organizations.