Strengthening Healthcare Resilience Through Business Continuity & Impact Analysis

Healthcare organizations face increasing disruption from cyber incidents, natural disasters, staffing challenges, and third-party dependencies. Effective Business Continuity Planning (BCP) and Business Impact Analysis (BIA) are critical to sustaining operations, protecting patient care, and meeting governance expectations.

This webinar explores the core principles of BCP and BIA and examines how internal audit and management can evaluate these programs to help healthcare organizations strengthen resilience across a wide range of potential crisis scenarios.

Participants will gain insight into: 

• Why BCP and BIA are essential to long-term organizational stability
• How BIA helps prioritize critical functions, risks, and recovery actions
• How internal audit can assess continuity plans against a comprehensive BCP framework
• Common gaps and leading practices observed in healthcare organizations

Learning Objectives:

• Explain the importance of Business Continuity Planning (BCP) and Business Impact Analysis (BIA) in supporting organizational resilience, operational stability, and long-term sustainability during disruptive events.
• Describe how Business Impact Analysis (BIA) is used to identify critical business functions, assess risks, and prioritize recovery strategies across clinical, operational, and technology-dependent processes in healthcare organizations.
• Identify key components of a comprehensive Business Continuity Planning framework and understand how these components align with leading practices for healthcare organizations.
• Recognize the role of internal audit and management in evaluating and testing BCP and BIA programs to help ensure continuity plans are effective, current, and actionable.

Learning Outcomes: Participants will be able to:

• Demonstrate an understanding of why effective BCP and BIA programs are essential to maintaining continuity of operations and patient care during a wide range of disruptive events.
• Apply BIA concepts to prioritize risks, recovery time objectives (RTOs), and recovery strategies based on the operational and financial impact of disruptions.
• Evaluate their organization’s business continuity plans against a structured BCP framework to identify potential gaps, control weaknesses, or areas for enhancement.
• Assess how internal audit and management can collaborate to provide assurance over BCP and BIA processes, including governance, documentation, testing, and ongoing program maturity.

This course qualifies for 1.0 CPE credit in Business Management & Organization.