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Disaster recovery: Mitigating loss through documentation
Author(s) -
Boisvert Sue
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
journal of healthcare risk management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.221
H-Index - 16
eISSN - 2040-0861
pISSN - 1074-4797
DOI - 10.1002/jhrm.20083
Subject(s) - documentation , tornado , natural disaster , disaster recovery , flood myth , business , process (computing) , operations management , risk analysis (engineering) , computer security , forensic engineering , environmental planning , history , computer science , engineering , geography , meteorology , archaeology , programming language , operating system
Flood, fire, tornado, hurricane. Whatever the cause, natural or man‐made, the result on an organization can be devastating. Planning and preparation for disaster must include significant attention to disaster recovery. The ability to produce documentation of what existed, what was damaged, recovery costs and income losses will be essential to the claims adjustment process. This article discusses strategies for creating a historical record, leveraging contemporaneous incident command documentation and working with contractors to identify and record disaster‐related expenses.