What You Should Know:
– ShelterZoom, a leader in cyber resilience and digital ownership technology, has launched Spare Tire, a next-generation software that provides uninterrupted healthcare operations through a live, continuously syncing backup system for Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems.
– Delivered in a flexible, pay-as-you-need model, Spare Tire provides real-time resilience during cyberattacks, system failures, or planned downtimes, without any upfront infrastructure or long implementation cycles.
Unmatched Capabilities for Evolving Cybersecurity Threats
Spare Tire aims to ensure uninterrupted care operations and access to critical EHR systems, providing seamless business continuity while synchronizing downtime data back into the primary system upon restoration. Unlike traditional disaster recovery and business continuity solutions that rely on pen and paper or static backups, Spare Tire allows hospitals and healthcare facilities to remain fully operational in real-time, using a “living and breathing” backup system.
Key benefits of Spare Tire include:
- On-Demand Model: It operates on a consumption model for ransomware resiliency, EHR downtime, and business continuity.
- Rapid Activation: Healthcare systems can activate Spare Tire instantly during cyberattacks, outages, or system failures.
- Flexible Integration Tiers: It offers flexible tiers of integration depending on hospital readiness, including an emergency use option that requires no setup.
- Live, Continuously Syncing Backup: It is a live backup system, not a static disaster recovery method.
- Maintain Full Workflows: Hospitals can maintain full clinical workflows and documentation during downtime, with automatic reintegration of all data once systems are restored.
Healthcare leaders interested in evaluating Spare Tire can sign up for a no-cost, passive-use trial to explore its functionality, performance, and interface in real-time, without impacting their existing systems.
“The need for this new technology is as great as it is urgent,” said ShelterZoom CEO and co-founder Chao Cheng-Shorland. The launch comes amid a surge in cybersecurity threats, with a BlackFog report showing ransomware attacks hitting a record high in Q1 2025 and healthcare being one of the top three targeted industries. A December 2024 U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services report also identified 677 major health data breaches affecting over 182.4 million people in 2024.
