72 hours to recover.
Now under two.
CalvertHealth is a not-for-profit, community-owned hospital in rural Maryland with over 200 active and consulting physicians. Its MEDITECH EHR recovery plan ran on on-premises servers and needed 48 to 72 hours to restore service. Purpose Health moved the recovery site to AWS and cut that to under 2 hours, a 97% improvement, with no up-front cost.
A stand-alone hospital with a three-day recovery window.
CalvertHealth sat in a trifecta of risk: a rural location with no nearby organizations to lean on, a mid-Atlantic address in the path of hurricanes, and a trove of patient data that makes hospitals a ransomware target. Downtime costs a midsize hospital over $300,000 per hour, and CalvertHealth's on-premises backup needed 48 to 72 hours to bring the EHR back. Every hour of that window meant patient care without health information exchange or prescription histories.
Recovery Site on AWS
We moved the MEDITECH EHR recovery site from the corporate data center to AWS, so a disaster no longer means configuring and managing every server by hand.
AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery
Continuous replication restores on-premises applications fast and reliably, using affordable storage, minimal compute, and point-in-time recovery.
AWS Backup Across Workloads
Centralized, automated data protection across AWS services and hybrid workloads, replacing third-party backup software on on-premises servers.
140 Servers, Side by Side
Working alongside CalvertHealth's own network engineer and the AWS team, we deployed the solution on almost 140 servers, replicating data into AWS over a VPN.
No Up-Front Cost
Structured with AWS to require no capital outlay, the project never needed a board presentation. CalvertHealth could do the right thing rather than worry about how to fund it.
RTO cut 97%
Recovery time dropped from 72 hours to under 2.
A better security rating
The shorter RTO raised CalvertHealth's score in a third-party security audit and impressed its cyber insurer.
Familiar screens
The recovered system looks the same, so nurses and clinicians work at full speed from the first minute.
Zero capital spend
Resilience delivered with no up-front cost and less connection monitoring for staff.
A rural stand-alone hospital with a 48-to-72-hour recovery window on on-premises backup and no neighbor to lean on.
Purpose Health's MEDITECH expertise shapes the plan: migrate the EHR recovery site to AWS, keeping the data in a usable interface.
Elastic Disaster Recovery and AWS Backup deployed on almost 140 servers, replicating into AWS over a VPN.
RTO verified at under 2 hours. A third-party security audit scores the improvement; the cyber insurer takes note.
A hybrid environment others watch around the clock, freeing staff for the work that matters.
MEDITECH expertise
Consultants who know the EHR shaped a recovery design that keeps patient data in a usable interface.
One team with AWS
Purpose Health, the AWS team, and CalvertHealth's network engineer deployed 140 servers together.
No capital barrier
Structured to need no up-front cost, the project moved on merit instead of waiting on a budget cycle.
Compliance dividends
The 97% RTO cut paid off in a security audit and with the cybersecurity insurance vendor.
"Using solutions from AWS and Purpose Health, we've achieved something that not a lot of rural stand-alone hospitals can do. It takes stress off me and the other executives knowing we can get things back up and running as soon as we possibly can."
Measure recovery in minutes instead of days.
Whether your EHR recovery plan runs on aging on-premises hardware, your insurer is asking hard questions, or your last disaster recovery test didn't inspire confidence, our consultants have moved hospitals like yours to a recovery site that works.