HIPAA Business Continuity Plan Outline Template Free Download

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Introduction
- Purpose
- Applicability
- Scope
- Critical Business Functions
- Planning Principles
- Assumptions
- Prerequisites
- Backup Site
- Alternative Back-up Sites

Management Approach
- Policy
- Governance and Accountability
- Business Continuity Contacts
- Vendor Contacts
- Roles & Responsibilities

Risk Assessment
- Deliberate Disruption
- Environmental Disasters
- Services
- Systems
- Security
- Other Potential Scenarios

Contingency Strategy
- Backup and Recovery Strategies
- Objectives
- System Description
- Recovery Response Time
- Single Points of Failure
- Latency
- System Redundancy
- Data Integrity
- Business Costs during Downtime
- Backup Procedures
- Data Restore Procedures
- Maintaining Log Files
- Fail Over Procedure
- Recovery Steps
- Restoring Service
- Hot Stand By
- Spare Systems
- Data Recovery
- Backup Site
- Office space
- Work space
- Meeting space
- Storage space
- Safe
- Office equipment
- Telephone
- Fax
- E-mail
- Mail, courier, and messenger services
- Stationery, photocopying, and other facilities
- Computer equipment
- Personal Computers
- Printer
- Non-Recovery Departments and Personnel
- Returning to Normal Operations
- Original Site Restoration
- Concurrent processing
- Plan deactivation

Disaster Recovery Procedures
- Disaster Recovery Task #
- Disaster Recovery Task #

Notification & Activation Procedures
- Criteria for activating the Disaster Recovery Plan
- Procedure for activating the Disaster Recovery Plan
- Decision to Invoke the Disaster Recovery Plan
- Invoking the Disaster Recovery Site
- Contacting the Third Party Recovery Team
- Contacting the Operations Managers
- Contacting the Operations Team
- Contacting the Human Resources Manager
- Contacting Remote Users
- Activating the Communications Plan
- Moving to the Backup Site
- Getting Setup on the Backup Site
- Damage Assessment Procedure
- Response Checklist
- Follow-Up Checklist

Communications Plan
- Communications Schedule
- Message to Employees
- Message to Clients

Testing
- Testing Approaches
- Testing Tasks
- Testing Schedule

Training
- Scope
- Training Requirements
- Audience
- Roles and Responsibilities
- Training Evaluation
- Delivery Method
- Materials
- Duration
- Size
- Facilities
- Instructor Evaluation
- Updates
- Staffing

Maintenance
- Maintenance Activities
- Configuration Management
- Risk Assessment
- Testing
- System Protection
- Maintenance Reports
- Documentation
- Quality Assurance Activities