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Disaster recovery is top health IT priority survey reveals

Released 08/02/2012

A healthcare data management survey has found 55% of respondents choose disaster recovery as a top IT investment priority for 2012

A majority of 55% of respondents listed disaster recovery among their top three IT investment priorities for the next year

According to a survey by BridgeHead Software, recovery is the number one health IT investment priority, above other choices such as archiving, virtualisation, cloud computing and digitising paper records.

The survey asked healthcare IT professionals from all over the world about their on-going strategies for managing their hospital's IT systems. A majority of 55% of respondents listed disaster recovery among their top three IT investment priorities for the next year - an increase of 11 points compared to last year's survey which saw 44% of healthcare IT professionals choose "backup/disaster recovery" as one of their top three IT investment objectives.

Jim Beagle, CEO, said: "These survey results confirm what we expected: disaster recovery is becoming more of a priority, not less. This is largely due to the fact that hospitals continue to generate massive amounts of different types of data via a variety of information systems.”

Below are some of the key findings. The full report will be released in next month.

• 64% of respondents said their organisations had a disaster recovery strategy in place, but only 26% of those strategies were "robust, tried and tested";

• 68% of respondents said their data volumes had grown over the last year, 30% were unsure whether data volumes had changed and 2% said data volumes had decreased;

• 60% of respondents said they were managing more than 1 TB of data on primary store, but 35% were unsure how much data they were managing on primary store;

• 45% of respondents said their organisations were planning a major storage upgrade (1 TB or more) in the next year;

• 55% of respondents said some applications had archiving abilities, but only 16% said they had a full archiving policy that migrated data to the appropriate storage tiers.

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