EHR downtime readiness assessment for rural hospitals
Know how your hospital holds up when the EHR goes down.
A 52-item EHR downtime readiness assessment for Critical Access Hospitals and rural facilities, built on our Downtime Capability Model: preparation, response, and recovery, grounded in SEIPS 2.0 sociotechnical systems theory. It scores your facility two ways, and maps both to the frameworks a surveyor actually uses.
Two scores
Compliance and readiness are different questions
A facility can meet the written requirement and still struggle on the floor when the system goes dark. CEDRA reports both, so you see the gap between them.
Downtime Capability Model
Three phases of a downtime
Phase 1
Preparation
Plans, paper tools, and training in place before anything fails.
Phase 2
Response
How care continues while the EHR is unavailable.
Phase 3
Recovery
Getting back online and reconciling what happened on paper.
Framework mapping
Evidence-informed and mapped to five regulatory frameworks
- CMS Appendix ZEmergency preparedness, §485.625
- The Joint CommissionEmergency Management standards
- HIPAA Security Rule§164.308(a)(7), contingency plan
- ACHCCAH Chapter 17, 2026 edition
- ONC SAFER GuidesContingency planning
Pricing
Start free, go as deep as you need
| Option | Price |
|---|---|
| Free ScreenerA short online screener that shows where to look first. | $0 |
| Rapid ScreenA focused first pass. | $500 |
| ExpressA shorter assessment between the screener and full CEDRA. | $1,500 |
| Full CEDRA, independent facilityAll 52 items, both indices, framework mapping, and a written report. | $8,500 |
| Full CEDRA, system-affiliated facilityThe same assessment for hospitals within a health system. | $12,500 |
| Knowledge CaptureKnowledgeBridge: the procedural knowledge held by your longest-tenured staff, captured so it survives retirements, turnover, and new AI tools. | $5,000 to $15,000 |
| Readiness RetainerOngoing support after an assessment. | $24,000 to $48,000 per year |
For state Flex programs and hospital associations
Run CEDRA across a cohort of facilities
Volume licensing at $350 to $600 per facility, with a state-level rollup report built for the cohort outcomes you report to FORHP.
Find out where you stand before a surveyor, or an outage, does.
Thirty minutes on Google Meet. Sample report available on request.