Business Associates Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Plan

Business Associates Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity PlanBusiness Associate as an individual or corporate “person” that performs on behalf of the covered entity any function or activity involving the use or disclosure of protected health information (PHI) and is not a member of the covered entity’s workforce. The definition of “function or activity” is all-encompassing: legal, actuarial, accounting, consulting, data processing, management, administrative, accreditation, financial services, and anything else for which a covered entity might contract out are included if access to PHI is involved. It is a better business practice for business associates to create a contingency plan. Clients are assured that their information is safe and recoverable from vendors who have disaster recovery plans.

This is a complete templates suite required by any Business Associates of the covered entity to create a complete Business Impact Analysis (BIA), Risk Assessment, Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP), and Business Continuity Plan (BCP). Any organization, large or small, can use this template and adapt to its environment.

Our templates are designed to meet HIPAA & JCAHO requirements of the healthcare industry and will also help with business continuity requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX), FISMA, ISO 27002, and FDA. This template suite contains guidelines, matrix, templates, forms, worksheets, policies, procedures, methodologies, tools, recovery plan, information on free resources, and standards in the following sections:

  • Business Impact Analysis (BIA)
  • Risk Assessment
  • Selecting and Implementing Recovery Strategies
  • Business Associates Program Policy & Standards
  • Business Associates Data Backup and Storage Plan
  • Business Associates Plan(DRP)
  • Business Associates Business Continuity Plan (BCP)
  • Emergency Mode Operation Plan (EMOP)
  • Business Associates DRP & BCP Testing and Revision Plan

The Business Associates (BA) Contingency Plan Template Suite comes as a Word & Excel documents and has more than 1500 pages of content (including 772 pages examples of different plans) which can be easily scaled based on the size of your organization. It is advisable to create a disaster plan based on the worst-case scenario.

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Summary of Documents in Business Associates Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Plan Template Suite

Sr. No
Pages in Document
Template Document
Sub Section: Conducting a Business Impact Analysis
1
23
2
21
3
6
Short Version Business Impact Analysis Template
4
24
5
8
6
1
Department Financial Impact Chart Template
7
1
Department Operational Impact Chart Template
8
1
Department Legal/Regulatory Chart Template
9
23
10
2
Combined Financial Impact Chart Template
11
3
Combined Operational Impact Chart Template
12
1
Combined Legal/Regulatory Chart Template
13
3
Combined People Over Time Chart Template
Sub Section: Conducting a Risk Assessment
14
15
15
17
16
14
Risk Assessment Worksheet
17
15
18
6
19
10
20
5
Executive Report Charts Template (5 Charts)
Sub Section: Selecting and Implementing Recovery Strategies
21
15
22
8
Sub Section: Sample Documents
23
24
Example of Completed Long Version BIA
24
4
Example of Completed Short Version BIA
25
39
Example of Completed App & Data Criticality Analysis
26
8
Example of Completed Business Unit Final Report
27
3
Example of Charts to support Business Unit Final Report (3 Charts)
28
40
Example of Completed Executive Management Report
29
17
Example of Completed Risk Assessment
30
16
Example of Completed Final Risk Assessment Report
31
14
Example Completed Risk Assessment Worksheet
Sub Section: Contingency Program Policy & Standards
32
12
33
14
Business Impact Analysis Standard
34
11
35
11
Risk Assessment Standard
36
10
37
69
38
14
Emergency Mode Operation Plan Standards
39
20
Business Resumption Planning Standards
40
17
41
14
Testing & Revision Standards
42
15
43
8
Data Backup Standard
44
7
Training & Awareness Standard
45
3
Instructions on how to update all standards
Sub Section: Appendix Documents (Help Guides / Templates)
46
9
Types of Contingency Plans
Sub Section: Data Backup and Storage Plan
47
18 
48
11 
Data Backup Plan (DBP) development Guide
Sub Section: Disaster Recovery Plan
49
23 
50
18 
Application Recovery Plan Development Guide
51
20 
52
15 
Network Recovery Plan Development Guide
53
19 
54
16 
Database Recovery Plan Development Guide
55
19 
56
15 
Server Recovery Plan Development Guide
57
19 
58
17 
Telecom Recovery Plan Development Guide
59
38 
60
17 
Disaster Recovery Plan Development Guide
Sub Section: Emergency Mode Operation Plan
61
16 
62
18 
63
38 
Emergency Mode Operation Planning Standards
64
11 
Emergency Mode Operations Plan Development Guide
Sub Section: Testing and Revision Plan
65
18 
Testing and Revision Program including following sub documents:
66
16 
67
10 
Business Unit Test Plan Development Guide
68
18 
69
10 
Technology Test Plan Development Guide
70
2 
Test Schedule
71
6
Business Unit Plan Audit Checklist
72
7
Application Plan Audit Checklist
73
6
Database Plan Audit Checklist
74
6
Disaster Recovery Audit Checklist
75
6
Network Plan Audit Checklist
76
6
Server Plan Audit Checklist
77
6
Telecom Plan Audit Checklist
78
1
Audit Notification Memo
79
1
Plan Audit Final Report Template
80
1
Test Notification Memo
81
1 
Type of Tests
Sub Section: Sample Documents
82
18 
Example of Completed Data Backup Plan
83
38 
Example of Completed Disaster Recovery Plan
84
23 
Example of Completed Application Recovery Plan
85
20 
Example of Completed Emergency Mode Op Plan including following sub documents:
86
42 
Accounting EMOP
87
37 
BIOMED EMOP
88
38 
Corporate Communications EMOP
89
37 
Emergency Services EMOP
90
38 
Facilities & Security EMOP
91
38 
Human Resources EMOP
92
38 
Laboratory EMOP
93
38 
Materials Management EMOP
94
37 
Pharmacy EMOP
95
36 
Surgery EMOP
96
14 
Example Business Unit Test Plan
97
16 
Example Technology Unit Test Plan
98
2 
Example Test Schedule
99
1
Example Audit Notification Memo
100
6
Example Business Plan Audit Checklist
101
2
Example Final Audit Report
102
1
Example Audit Follow Up Memo
103
2 
Example Test Notification Memo
Total Cost to buy 103 templates (1612 pages): $1200

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