GP practices across Kent and Medway are facing disruption following a major IT failure which led to online services being suspended.
The outage left clinicians and administration teams at the majority of surgeries unable to…
Mike Nesbitt, health minister for Northern Ireland (Credit: Department of Health)
Around 1,600 patient appointments have been postponed owing to an IT outage at the Southern Health and Social Care Trust (SHSCT), Mike Nesbitt,…
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Staff at two hospitals in the south west of England have resorted to using paper after a major IT incident just days before the planned resident doctors’ strikes.
Cheltenham and Gloucester NHS Foundation Trust reported…
Ohio-based Kettering Health announced this past Friday, May 23, that it had stepped up an emergency urgent clinical support line and temporary retail pharmacy contact numbers to ensure care continuity during a system-wide IT outage. The…
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An outage to the EMIS IT system caused “chaos” for GPs in England when access was cut off to appointment booking systems and patient records at the busiest time of the week.
EMIS is the…
When CrowdStrike tried to parse a bad Falcon Suite configuration file pushed to millions of Windows machines this past July, the widespread crash took out the whole operating system and its applications – affecting…
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In the wake of the largest IT outage in history, healthcare organisations must keep faith in digital – and reinforce their infrastructures, writes Mizaic’s Jon Pickering
Futureproofing the healthcare industry is essential for improving patient…
Welcome to the July edition of Digital Health Digest!Dive into this month’s highlights, including strategic partnerships, significant funding rounds, and crucial IT disruptions in healthcare. Explore how these developments are driving innovation and addressing…
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A recent IT issue at cybersecurity software company CrowdStrike resulted in a tech outage that has left companies all over the globe reeling — from banks to airlines to of course, healthcare providers. Experts…
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Many affected health systems say they’re back up and running, days after a global IT outage caused by a faulty CrowdStrike update that took millions of Microsoft systems offline on July 19. The outage…
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