Backup and Recovery for Medical Devices Where Downtime Delays Care
In clinical environments, even short outages delay diagnosis, disrupt care and increase service costs. Medical device manufacturers need recovery built into the product, restoring systems in minutes when failure occurs.
When Recovery Fails, Support Costs Rise Fast
Medical devices must remain available at all times. Failure delays diagnosis, disrupts clinical workflows, and places immediate pressure on patient and care teams.
Recovery must be fast, predictable, and validated, even with long device lifecycles, mixed hardware, and the constraints of clinical environments.
Maintain predictable recovery across long medical device lifecycles
Standardize recovery across hardware platforms and Windows editions
Recover securely in clinical environments without cloud dependency
Why Medical Device Manufacturers Choose Macrium
Reduce downtime and lower support costs
When devices fail in the field, recovery must work immediately, even without a technician on site.
Simple workflows restore any device to a known good state or clean factory image in minutes.- Recovery works remotely or can be handled by local staff, often avoiding site visits and reducing service cost.
Deliver consistent recovery across all products
Medical devices stay in the field for many years and often run on varied hardware, OS builds and regional configurations.
- Macrium standardizes recovery across your entire product line.
- A long-term stable product and broad Windows support, including embedded and IOT editions, ensure every device restores the same way, regardless of age or configuration.
Restore reliably in constrained and offline environments
Medical devices often operate in restricted networks or fully offline environments where cloud-based tools do not work.
- Macrium runs fully locally, with silent installation, controlled updates and predictable deployments.
- Tamper-protected backup images and a self-contained recovery environment ensure devices can always be restored.
Reduce validation effort and compliance risk
In regulated environments, even small software changes can trigger costly revalidation and compliance testing.
- Macrium’s LTSC edition delivers a stable recovery platform with predictable behaviour and local operation, reducing revalidation effort across long compliance cycles.
- Perpetual licensing options ensure your license never expires in the field.
Macrium makes our product stronger
Jose Rivera – Vice President of Service and Support for Sysmex America
Macrium was the only product that worked across all of our platforms. Along with its ease of use and its quick recovery it was a no-brainer for us to go with Macrium.
- Ben Boeke – Group Manager Technical Product Management, Sysmex America
Explore our Solutions for Medical Device Manufacturers:
Macrium Reflect LTSC
A stable, long‑term backup and recovery solution for standalone or embedded systems.
Stable solution with minimal change - fit for long-term field deployments- One‑time‑purchase (perpetual) licensing
- Comprehensive Windows compatibility from legacy to modern IOT, and mixed environments
- Designed for critical, often offline and air-gapped systems
OS Deployment
Build, manage, and deploy golden images during initial commissioning, or refurbishment.
- Consistent golden image provisioning
- Faster OS deployment during build and replacement
- Supports repeatable commissioning workflows
Macrium - Your Expert for Dependable Recovery of Critical Systems
Recovery that simply works
Engineered for the demands of critical systems
20 years of system imaging expertise
Resources
Backup & Recovery Best Practices Guide
