Data center outages a costly burden for healthcare
Data center outages have a heavy financial toll for healthcare organizations, costing an average of $690,000 per incident, according to a Ponemon Institute/Emerson Network Power report.
That rate is a 41 percent increase since 2010. For larger organizations with more extensive IT systems, data center outages could cost $1.74 million per incident.
Researchers surveyed 450 data center employees on the causes and frequency of data center outages and found the following:
- Two complete data center outages;
- Six partial data center outages; and
- 11 device-level outages limited to individual servers.
The report also found that data center outages cost organizations $7,900 per minute.
Editor Beth earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism and master’s in health communication. She has worked in hospital, academic and publishing settings over the past 20 years. Beth joined TriMed in 2005, as editor of CMIO and Clinical Innovation + Technology. When not covering all things related to health IT, she spends time with her husband and three children.