HIPAA-Aligned Backup & Recovery Services for Healthcare
Protect patient data. Meet critical backup requirements. Recover with confidence.
Your patients depend on uninterrupted access to their health information. Central Data Storage (CDS) helps medical and dental practices protect electronic protected health information (ePHI) through encrypted backups, private U.S. infrastructure, and clean, verified recovery.
Our fully managed backup and recovery services support HIPAA security safeguards, contingency planning, and operational continuity without adding complexity to your practice.
HIPAA Backup Requirements Shouldn’t Put Patient Care at Risk
HIPAA requires healthcare organizations to maintain retrievable copies of ePHI and establish procedures to restore lost electronic data. But meeting those requirements involves more than running scheduled backups. Your practice needs a reliable way to protect, access, and recover critical information when systems fail.
CDS helps address these responsibilities through:
Secure Data Backups
Automated, encrypted backups of critical healthcare information.
Offsite Data Protection
Protected copies stored separately from your primary systems.
Verified Recovery
Restore validation to help identify corruption and recovery failures.
Controlled Access
Security controls that restrict access to protected backup information.
Recovery Documentation
Backup and restoration records that support security reviews.
Managed Support
Experienced assistance when your practice needs to recover.
Our managed backup services help healthcare organizations build dependable protection around their critical data.
How CDS Supports Your HIPAA Contingency Plan
The HIPAA Security Rule’s contingency planning standard, 45 CFR §164.308(a)(7), addresses how healthcare organizations prepare for emergencies and restore access to ePHI. CDS supports the five components of this standard through backup infrastructure, recovery capabilities, and operational documentation.
Data Backup Plan
Create and maintain retrievable exact copies of ePHI with automated, encrypted backups.
Disaster Recovery Plan
Support restoration of protected healthcare data after system failures, cyber incidents, and other disruptions.
Emergency Mode Operation Plan
Prepare to recover critical systems needed for essential healthcare operations during an emergency.
Testing and Revision Procedures
Use restore validation and recovery records to help evaluate the effectiveness of your backup procedures.
Applications and Data Criticality Analysis
Identify essential clinical systems and prioritize recovery according to operational dependencies.
Required vs. addressable
The first three are required implementation specifications. Testing and revision, and applications and data criticality analysis, are addressable specifications that organizations must appropriately evaluate.
Your contingency plan needs recoverable data behind it.
Find out how CDS backup and recovery capabilities can support each component of your plan.
HIPAA-Aligned Data Protection Beyond Basic Cloud Backup
Standard cloud storage and a completed backup job do not automatically establish that your healthcare data is protected or recoverable. CDS combines security safeguards with recovery-focused backup management.
| CDS capability | Benefit to your organization |
|---|---|
| Encrypted backup storage | Protect sensitive healthcare information against unauthorized exposure |
| Private U.S. infrastructure | Keep protected backups within CDS-operated infrastructure |
| Access controls | Restrict backup administration and recovery permissions |
| Backup monitoring | Help detect unsuccessful or interrupted backup operations |
| Recovery verification | Assess whether protected data can be successfully restored |
| BAA support | Support appropriate contractual protections for healthcare data |
| Recovery documentation | Maintain relevant evidence for operational and security reviews |
Our approach supports your organization’s HIPAA security program while keeping recoverability central to the service.
A Signed BAA Is Important. Recoverable Backups Matter Just as Much.
A Business Associate Agreement defines important responsibilities between your healthcare organization and a service provider handling PHI.
But a BAA alone does not verify backup integrity, prevent data corruption, or restore a compromised system.
Learn About CDS Business Associate Agreements- ✓Encrypted storage
- ✓Backup oversight
- ✓Verified recovery processes
Our goal is to help healthcare organizations maintain the technical safeguards and recovery capabilities needed to protect patient information.
Clean, Verified Recovery When Your Practice Needs It Most
A successful backup is not the same as a successful recovery. Backup data can become corrupted or compromised without the problem being discovered until restoration is needed. CDS uses its UnisonBDR technology to emphasize the integrity and recoverability of protected data.
Protected Backup Copies
Keep encrypted backup copies separated from production systems to reduce exposure to local failures and cyber incidents.
Backup Integrity Checks
Identify potential data integrity issues that could affect restoration.
Verified Restoration
Validate recovery processes to help determine whether protected data can be restored successfully.
Human Recovery Support
Get assistance from experienced professionals when your organization encounters data loss or an operational disruption.
Learn how CDS Backup Verification and Recovery helps healthcare organizations prepare for dependable restoration.
Don’t wait for an outage to discover that your backup cannot be restored.
See whether your current backups can actually be recovered when your practice needs them.
Healthcare Ransomware Protection Starts With Recoverable Backups
Ransomware can interrupt access to patient records, compromise connected systems, and target accessible backup copies.
Our recovery-first approach helps reduce dependence on potentially compromised production systems when essential data needs to be restored.
For organizations responding to an incident or evaluating their recovery readiness, explore our Ransomware Recovery Services →
- ✓Isolated backup storage
- ✓Recovery checks
- ✓Managed restoration support
HIPAA-Aligned Backup Built for Your Healthcare Environment
CDS supports healthcare organizations with different clinical applications, data volumes, and recovery requirements.
Medical Practices & Specialty Clinics
Protect EHR data, patient charts, scheduling systems, and critical clinical records.
Medical Practice Backup Solutions →Dental Practices & DSOs
Secure dental imaging, practice management databases, treatment records, and multi-location data.
Dental Backup and Recovery Services →Radiology & Imaging Centers
Support the protection and recovery of imaging datasets, PACS-related information, and diagnostic records.
Radiology Backup Solutions →Healthcare Software Providers
Protect patient management applications, operational databases, and essential healthcare software data.
Patient Management Software Backup →Why Healthcare Organizations Choose CDS
Your backup provider should help you recover, not simply tell you that your backup completed. CDS brings together the infrastructure, technology, and people needed for dependable healthcare data protection.
Specialized expertise in protecting business-critical data.
Private U.S. Infrastructure
CDS-operated storage without reliance on third-party public cloud hosting for managed backups.
Clean Recovery Focus
Backup validation and restore verification designed to improve recoverability.
Predictable Costs
Flat-rate backup options with no egress or retrieval fees under applicable plans.
Healthcare-Focused Support
BAA support and services tailored to regulated healthcare environments.
24/7 Human Assistance
Direct access to support when operational issues arise.
Frequently Asked Questions About HIPAA Backup Services
What are the HIPAA requirements for data backup?+
HIPAA requires covered entities and business associates to establish procedures for creating and maintaining retrievable exact copies of ePHI under the Security Rule’s contingency planning standard.
What is a HIPAA contingency plan?+
A HIPAA contingency plan addresses data backup, disaster recovery, emergency operations, testing and revision, and applications and data criticality to prepare for disruptions affecting ePHI.
Does HIPAA require offsite backups?+
HIPAA does not universally mandate offsite storage. However, geographically separate or isolated backups can help protect information against incidents that affect primary systems.
How often should HIPAA backups be performed?+
HIPAA does not prescribe one backup frequency. Organizations should determine appropriate schedules based on risk analysis, data changes, and recovery requirements.
Does HIPAA require backup recovery testing?+
HIPAA identifies periodic contingency-plan testing and revision as an addressable implementation specification. Organizations must evaluate and document the appropriate approach.
Does CDS provide a Business Associate Agreement?+
CDS offers BAA support for qualifying healthcare customer relationships involving protected health information.
Can CDS help recover healthcare data after ransomware?+
CDS provides protected backups, recovery verification, and restoration support to help healthcare organizations recover data after ransomware incidents.
Does using CDS make my practice HIPAA compliant?+
No backup provider can guarantee an organization’s HIPAA compliance. CDS provides safeguards, documentation, and recovery capabilities that support your overall HIPAA security program.
Your practice protects patient health. CDS helps protect the data behind it.
Find out whether your current backups provide the security, recoverability, and operational readiness your healthcare organization needs.
With CDS, you can evaluate your backup environment and discuss practical steps to strengthen protection against data loss, ransomware, and unexpected outages.
Secure backups. Verified recovery. Healthcare-focused protection.