Prove you can keep treating patients. Even when the EHR can't.
Run cyber, surge and emergency scenarios in live conditions.
What if the entire exercise, from scenario to accreditation-ready report, took less than 60 minutes? You could run it this week.
Mapped to CMS · HIPAA · Joint Commission · NSQHS · and more
Why now
Patient care breaks down faster than escalation trees
Hospitals often discover communication gaps, unclear clinical ownership and manual-workaround failures during the first realistic downtime simulation.
Clinical continuity now depends on operational resilience
Cyber incidents, EHR outages and emergency surges increasingly impact frontline care delivery. Health systems are under pressure to prove they can continue operating safely during disruption.
Critical vendors now sit directly in the patient-care pathway
EHR platforms, connected devices, pathology systems and third-party providers have become operational dependencies. A single outage can rapidly cascade into a patient-safety event.
The frameworks behind every accreditation visit, OCR audit and board question
Mass-casualty and community-wide emergency exercise. CMS requires annual full-scale plus additional. Joint Commission requires two with at least one community-wide. In Australia, the ACSQHC NSQHS Standards (Std 1 Clinical Governance, Std 8 Recognising and Responding to Acute Deterioration) carry equivalent emergency-readiness expectations for accredited services.
HIPAA requires periodic testing and revision of contingency plan components. In Australia, the Privacy Act 1988 and the OAIC Notifiable Data Breaches scheme require timely assessment and notification of eligible data breaches; the upcoming Privacy Act reforms tighten security obligations further. EU and UK frameworks expect annual exercising of business continuity plans.
Don't see your framework?
Handrails covers more than CMS and HIPAA. If your obligation is listed here, or you don't see it at all, let us know.
- Sentinel EventsOn-occurrence rehearsal expected under Joint Commission Sentinel Event Policy and NSQHS Standard 1. 45 business day root-cause window. Open-disclosure obligations under the Australian Open Disclosure Framework and UK CQC Regulation 20.
- Infection PreventionAnnual coordination with emergency-preparedness under CMS §482.42, JC IC.02.01.01 and NSQHS Standard 3. ECDC and member-state public-health frameworks apply in the EU.
From scenario to accreditation-ready report, in under 60 minutes.
Built around your context
Answer a few questions about your setup, including your facility type, accreditation framework, jurisdiction, integrated-network status and IT / cyber maturity. The scenario is tuned to the obligations actually in scope, not a generic template. Hours of consultant prep, designed in minutes.
Run it live, virtually
Your team joins a video call. EM, CISO, Infection Prevention, CMO / Patient Safety, Facilities and senior management observers in the same call; each function makes the decisions they'd actually make. The recording is the evidence stream. Scheduling is the only setup.
The report is ready before you close the call
Results generated in minutes, logged against your internal policies and what accreditors and regulators demand. See areas for improvement and re-run quarterly to show the improvement curve accreditors and boards now want to see.
Tailored, not templated
Ransomware on the EHR
EHR encryption stops clinical workflow. Downtime procedures, surgery diversion, OCR breach-notification timing, OAIC Notifiable Data Breaches assessment for AU operations, public statement, regional mutual-aid coordination.
Mass-casualty surge
Multi-vehicle incident plus active-shooter overflow. Triage, OR / ED / ICU surge, regional mutual-aid coordination, family-liaison comms. Joint Commission community-wide drill scope; NSQHS Standard 8 acute-deterioration alignment.
Sentinel event
Wrong-site surgery surfaces. Open-disclosure timing under the Australian Open Disclosure Framework, RCA charter under JC's 45 business day clock, family liaison, state-reporting obligation, JC notification.
Be the partner that makes accreditation prep feel lighter for your clients.
Run your first healthcare exercise this week.
Sign up, pick a scenario, invite the team. The report is ready before the session ends.