Have you ever thought about how your practice would survive after a disaster? What would happen if your office burned down, or burglars broke in and stole all your computers? Natural disasters, such as floods, hurricanes, and tornados also pose a threat.

Many businesses fail after disasters because they did not plan ahead. Remote backups are one of the easiest and best ways to protect your practice. If you still use paper charts, you face an even greater risk. Keeping an updated offsite copy of all your paper charts would be prohibitively expensive.

XLEMR's Remote Backup system creates a duplicate copy of your data and sends it to a computer at your home via secure internet connection. You can recover from a disaster in the time it takes you to drive home and back to the office.

The Problem with Hosted Backups

Many companies offer hosted offsite backups, where they allow you to upload your data to one of their web servers. This architecture has two main problems. It is usually subscription based, and if you lose everything, it can take forever to download all of your data.

Hosted backup solutions can be expensive. They usually charge you by the gigabyte (GB). Our average customer has about 300GB of data, which could cost you as much as $540 per month. That equals $6480 per year, and about $32,400.00 over five years - more than the cost of some EHR systems. With XLEMR you host your own backups. We charge a one-time fee, and you can use our software for as long as you like.

The second problem with hosted backups is download time. If you've ever downloaded large files from the internet, you know it can be time-consuming. The average size of a patient's folder with XLEMR is about 66 MB. If your practice sees a total of 2000 patients, you will need to backup about 133200 megabytes (MB), or 130 GB of data.

If you lose a couple of files, downloading them is not a big deal. However, if you lose everything, and have to download all of your data, you could be out of business for a long time. If you have a fast internet connection, such as Comcast, your download speed could be about 4.82 MB/s. With this speed it could take you about 19 days to download 130 GB of data.

Even if a hosted backup company overnights you a hard drive, you could still be out of business for a day. XLEMR's remote backup allows you to recover as quickly as you can drive home and back to the office.