Preparing rural care teams for AI can strengthen care without replacing clinical judgement.
|Articles|July 10, 2012
Use cloud and local backup for electronic health records
Author(s)Rosemarie Nelson
Creating several layers of protection for your electronic data will help you breathe easy
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A: Use the cloud. I recommend a local backup (the old tape/removable hard drive stored off-site idea that you've lived with in your practice management world), as well as a cloud-based backup service. A Web search will help you find vendors and options for comparing and evaluating different solutions. Don't forget to ask your EHR software vendor for a recommendation, too.
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