At this week’s HIMSS25 health conference in Las Vegas, Commvault announced that its cyber resilience and recovery technologies can be used to rapidly recover electronic health records (EHRs), including in Epic and Meditech environments.

The need for this type of technology is critical. Healthcare organisations are under attack by cyber criminals. In the first half of 2024, more than 31 million patient records were exposed in data breaches, with attacks on hospitals costing the US healthcare system over $21.9bn since 2018.

Bad actors know hospitals and medical facilities rely on and use highly sensitive data to provide patient care. If criminals can gain access to those data, they can hold them for ransom. This can put patient care in jeopardy. While healthcare providers may not be able to stop attacks, they can focus on recovery and resilience.

By enabling hospitals to accelerate clean data recovery through its Cleanroom Recovery (www.commvault.com/platform/cleanroom-recovery) offering while rapidly recovering cloud data, applications and configurations via Cloud Rewind (www.commvault.com/platform/cloud-rewind), Commvault can help healthcare organisations quickly recover from cyber incidents, maintain continuous patient care and help comply with evolving HIPAA guidelines.

“These days, providing continuous care involves all facets of a healthcare organisation, from operational processes to experienced medical staff,” said Michael Carroll, vice president at New Jersey-based Commvault. “It starts with understanding what’s truly essential for minimum viable operations. In healthcare, that means, in part, ensuring that patient records, treatment plans and scheduling systems are back online quickly following an attack. With Commvault, medical organisations can have peace of mind and focus on what matters most – delivering great care and saving lives.”

Cleanroom Recovery and Cloud Rewind deliver cyber resilience for healthcare environments. Cleanroom Recovery creates an on-demand production-ready failover environment in the cloud designed for ransomware-free restoration of medical records and other essential healthcare data from air-gapped backups. Healthcare organisations can also use Cleanroom Recovery to test their recovery plans so if and when they are attacked, they know in advance that they can recover.

Cloud Rewind lets providers automatically discover, protect and quickly recover entire application environments, including critical healthcare applications such as EHR systems. This can also play a key role in delivering uninterrupted patient care after a cyber attack.

Built on Microsoft Azure, Cleanroom Recovery and Cloud Rewind offer cloud-native cyber resilience for healthcare providers.

“Through our relationship with Commvault, we are delivering cloud-powered cyber resilience that helps enable healthcare organisations to protect patient data, minimise downtime and maintain operational continuity,” said David Houlding, director at Microsoft (www.microsoft.com).

Matthew Magbee, application manager at Sonic Healthcare (www.sonichealthcareusa.com), added: “Commvault gives us the confidence we need that, in the event of a ransomware attack, we can minimise the impact and maintain our operations and provide uninterrupted patient care.”