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Hospitals and Medical Offices

Are You Prepared For An
EMR Outage?

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Your forms + DowntimeForms.com
=
a safer, less chaotic downtime
and faster revenue cycle recovery.

This tool does more to help your staff,
and patient safety,
than paper forms alone can.


And, it's affordable.

The Problems

  • Downtime is inevitable (even if it is infrequent).

  • Hand written identifiers are dangerous for patients and tedious for staff.

  • Downtime is stressful, chaotic and exhausting for caregivers and support staff.

  • You can't count on networks, servers, SharePoint, file shares etc. in downtime.

  • Recovery of information and revenue cycle after downtime is time consuming and expensive.

  • Keeping forms binders and storerooms current, in all your BCA locations, takes a lot of time.

  • ​In a downtime, replenishment to all those locations will be a logistically impossible

  • Paper downtime forms alone are not enough.

The Solution

  • Legible, barcoded, 100% accurate patient labels and forms.

  • An unlimited supply of current forms, immediate and effortlessly available, at each of your BCAs.

  • A low cost ($100/BCA/year), reliable, intuitive solution that is easy to deploy.

  • That works even in the worst case downtime scenario.  No network etc. needed.

You Can See The Difference

  • For patient safety.

  • For staff stress and fatigue.

  • For recovery speed.

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Let's Compare

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Centralize forms management and track owners, update dates, and next review dates.

Distribute updates of all forms, to all locations, with the push of a button.

Print forms and labels with legible patient identifiers including bar codes

 

Simple, intuitive search for forms and form Packets

 

In minutes, our staff can bulk load basic information for all patients on their nursing unit, or a clinic's schedule for the day, with 100% accuracy.  And they can enter New patients, not just existing.

When you come back up, barcoded form and patient information will enable auto-indexing of bulk scanned forms, enabling you to accelerate your revenue cycle and documentation recovery.

Make every form available everywhere.  Never run out of forms.  No need to scramble resources to deliver forms to 100 or 1,000 locations when a downtime hits.

Runs on your existing hardware.  We provide the server in the cloud.

Includes a phone directory and document repository for policies and other resources.

Capture a log of forms printed by location.  Log entries will include patient identifiers when staff include those when they print forms.  The Print Log will help identify forms you should be looking for and associated orders, procedures, and charges (If your staff enter basic patient information and print their forms with those patient identifiers).\

Eliminate warehousing forms and guessing how many copies of each form you will need available in each location.   

 

Eliminate management of store rooms in all of your locations and the need to activate forms distribution when your downtime hits or runs longer than local inventories support.

 

Eliminate the risk of running out of forms if you experience a long downtime.

 

Avoid the waste when disposing of pre-printed forms that are out of date. 

Even in the worst case scenario (a cyber attack, resulting in no network and no servers), your staff will be able to access all the forms they need.

Satisfy JCAHO (EM.11.01.01) requirement for availability of Forms, Labels and Reference Material in a downtime.

 

Satisfy SAFER Guidelines, Recommended Practice 1.3 Paper Forms Availability (August 2024 version).

 

Simple all inclusive pricing includes cloud server hosting for forms administration, technology licenses, professional services, support and upgrades.  Forms can be bulk loaded at no additional cost (assuming you can produce the necessary files following a naming convention.  You should also expect to need to update metadata for each form.)

 

45 day Risk Free Trail, and get started for 10% while you load your forms and metadata.  Only pay the full subscription when you are ready to distribute forms to your target machines.

Watch this "How It Works" in 2.5 Minutes

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As seen at

AHEPP February 2026

IAEM 2025

AHIMA October 2025

ANIA, March 2025

IAEM, November 2024

 

With DowntimeForms, staff at all your locations will have current copies of all forms.

Forms management and distribution are simple.

  Staff can print patient labels or overlay forms with basic patient identifier information, including barcodes - making care safer and recovery document scan indexing faster and more accurate.

$100 per year
per Downtime computer
(discounts for large customers)

45 Day 
Free Trial

Quick and Easy  Setup

  • No payment needed to start your free 45 day trial.  

  • The application is intuitive and easy to use.

  • Setup is easy and a bulk load of forms is possible.

  • Subscription based, with no big capital expenses or long delays to get started. 

  • We provide the secure, cloud based server. 

Consider your current costs:

 

Assume the use of downtime binders with copies of downtime policies, procedures and forms.  If you have 100 BCAs across 10 locations in a metropolitan area, to keep binders up to date will require driving between locations, consuming 5 hours per month.  Preparing materials, walking between departments in each location and updating binders will take 15 minutes per downtime computer.  100x15/60 = 25 hours + 5 = 30 hours.  Doing this 12 times a year would require 360 hours per year.  At $30 per hour this cost $10,800 per year. 

                    What is your current labor cost?   $__________

 

 

If you are keeping inventories of forms at each building location the printing, delivery and inventory maintenance takes significant time and carries significant cost. Discarding out of date forms is another cost that should be considered. 

                  

 What is your current labor cost?  $__________

 

                    What is your current forms cost?  $__________

Economics aside, this forms repository and binders or storerooms are not the same.  

  • Enter basic patient information and generate barcoded labels and forms - which you can’t do with a binders or storerooms of forms. 

  • Legible patient information will be critical for patient safety and data backload when systems are restored.  

  • Staff will avoid hand writing patient information (name, DOB, gender, location, MRN, CSN) hundreds of times while you are down.

  • Your staff will be able to search and find the forms they need in a fraction of the time.

  • DowntimeForms distribution of updates is much more reliable.  You can configure Packets of forms and staff can toggle printing of each form on/off as they print.

  • Reclaim precious storage space at clinics and on nursing units. 

To Learn More

DowntimeForms.com  

a product of LeaderFulcrum LLC

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