Introduction: X Axis is a renowned private cancer hospital located in Las Vegas.

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Introduction: X Axis is a renowned private cancer hospital located in Las Vegas. The hospital maintains a critical database that includes patient data for all patients. You are asked to create a BIA based on this database. If this database was inaccessible for six or more hours, what would be the impact? Discussion Points: Determine what type of risk-based impacts X Axis would encounter in such a situation. What are the potential business impacts in the emergency room (ER)? What are the potential business impacts in the doctor offices? What are the potential business impacts in other hospital locations such as patient rooms, or surgical wards? Identify any other issues that might be impacted with the loss of the most prominent database?

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If the patient's database is inaccessible for six or more hours, it would create much of disturbance and risks in the hospital. The patients age, gender and ailment details would not be recovered and thus the patients would not be given appropriate treatment. It would lead problems in terms of treatment given to patients and might be fatal for few of the patients who would not be given appropriate treatment at the right time.

The dosage and type of medicine given to the patients is based on their personal history and based on the medicine to which the patient is allergic to.If the details of the patients is not accessible for some time, it might lead to inappropriate dosage and medicine being administered to the patients which might lead to allergy and sometimes casualty with the patients.

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