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8/15/2017 |
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Don’t Let Data Loss Or Hardware Failure Derail Your Dental Practice |
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Don’t Let Data Loss Or Hardware Failure Derail Your Dental Practice by Lindy Benton Technology, IT and computer systems are now mission-critical assets for dental practices and perform highly-critical and sensitive functions. Any loss of data can result in substantial impact to the practice in terms of lost time, money and fines — not to mention that the loss of personal information to the outside world can be catastrophic. Dental practice leaders must focus on their work, the reason for the practice's being and a number of other issues, including maintaining access to information the practice collects and keeps. Information has never been so critical to business, and digital data creation is growing at a rate of 80 percent each year. According to Mozy, an information backup firm owned by Dell, statistics show that 140,000 hard drives fail in the U.S. each week. This means that one hard drive will crash every four to five seconds. One in 10 hard drives fail annually, and more than 70 percent of hard drives have some sort of operational issue. The cost of recovering a failed hard drive can be $10,000. A 2007 study by Google — one of the only studies of its kind — said 8 percent of computer hard drives will fail within the first two years of operation, meaning 1 in every 12 computer hard drives will crash within the first 24 months of operation. The resulting risk of service disruption to a dental practice is an understandable problem for practice leaders, given the assumption that they will be forced to manage some type of service disruption and loss of access to files. Therefore, the old cliché, "it's not a case of if but rather a case of when," is no truer than in the world of IT, especially in the care setting. When a dental practice's systems fail and data loss occurs, the impact will not be pleasant, but it will happen. The reality of the situation is that there are several types of system outages: - Hardware failures — servers/desktops, disk drives
- Software failures — bugs, viruses, malware, Trojans
- Human failures — accidental and malicious actions
- Facility failures — electrical, structural, water, theft
- Natural disasters — hurricanes, floods, lightning
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