Offline EHR Access for Hospitals in 2026: What Works
The short answer. Hospitals keep patient records reachable during an EHR outage in one of four ways: paper downtime kits, printed or cached downtime reports, a read-only snapshot viewer, or a continuity system that runs on separate infrastructure. Only the last one survives a ransomware attack that takes down the hospital domain, because the other […]
The Complete Guide to EHR Downtime Continuity.
How hospital IT and security leaders keep clinical work moving through a multi-week EHR outage. Every hospital that made national news for a ransomware outage had backups. Ascension, CommonSpirit, UHS, Change Healthcare, and AnMed all held recoverable copies of their data, and every one of them still reverted to paper while recovery ran for weeks. […]
Paper Is Not a Continuity Plan
When an EHR goes dark, hospitals don’t just go back in time. They go back to a workflow they have not fully run since the 1990s. I sell the layer that prevents the regression. Last week, the American Hospital Association made the case for me. BY RUSS COBB | Chief Revenue Officer, Shelter Zoom | […]
SpareTire® On Demand EHR Resiliency for Uninterrupted Patient Care
Healthcare organizations increasingly rely on electronic health records (EHRs) to provide timely, accurate, and
coordinated care. But cyberattacks, system failures, and routine maintenance can bring these critical systems offline…
Spare Tire Comparative Analysis
Find out how SpareTire is different to other EHR solutions…