The rising prevalence of ransomware attacks has made Epic system downtime a critical risk for healthcare organizations, directly impacting patient care and operational stability. Epic recommends an Isolated Recovery Environment (IRE) to safeguard critical data and enable rapid recovery, ensuring that healthcare providers can continue delivering reliable, informed care even during a cyberattack. Cordea Consulting, in collaboration with AWS, has developed Epic IRE on AWS—a cloud-based, read-only environment that offers a secure and cost-effective solution for protecting Epic systems from cyber threats.

By leveraging AWS’s security and compliance capabilities, Cordea’s Epic IRE solution follows Epic best practices while reducing business risks, improving resilience, and minimizing downtime. With up-to-date, immutable backups stored securely in AWS, healthcare organizations can recover in minutes rather than days, ensuring continuous access to critical patient data. In addition, the solution’s scalable, pay-as-you-go model allows mid-sized hospitals to maintain operational continuity at a cost-effective rate.

As a trusted AWS partner with extensive healthcare IT expertise, Cordea Consulting has successfully led cloud-based Epic deployments, including a recent Epic implementation at Jupiter Medical Center that reduced capital needs by nearly $4 million. To encourage early adoption of Epic IRE on AWS, Cordea and AWS are offering a no-cost Epic IRE deployment for the first 25 eligible hospitals or health systems that sign up by April 30, 2025. This initiative provides a unique opportunity for healthcare organizations to enhance cybersecurity resilience, align with Epic best practices, and future-proof their IT infrastructure.