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…
Massive Service Disruption Hits Verizon Network
A significant telecommunications crisis unfolded on Wednesday when nearly 200,000 Verizon customers found themselves completely disconnected from mobile phone and internet services. As America’s largest wireless service provider, Verizon…
Healthcare Security That Goes Beyond Monitoring
Why wait for the billion-dollar outage to justify improving your IT operations and security? “I always tell customers, reduce the risk from the start,” says Beckendorf.
Several years ago, a…
Exclusive: An Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage, which affected more than 1,000 companies and millions of internet users, is believed to have disrupted patient care across several NHS sites.
A digital chief at an acute…
Introduction
Dayton Children’s Hospital experienced temporary network disruptions and intermittent phone service issues on October 8, 2025, following a routine generator test. The hospital swiftly addressed the technical complications, ensuring minimal disruption to patient care…
How Can Healthcare Organizations Prevent Downtime?
Ransomware, over-reliance on third parties such as cloud providers, and human error or misconfiguration are among the leading causes of downtime in healthcare.
While natural disasters can also cause downtime,…
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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JAMA Network Open recently published an Original Investigation titled “Patient Care Technology Disruptions Associated With the CrowdStrike Outage.” The UCSD authors found disruptions at 759 of 2,200 hospitals during the July 19, 2024 outage,…
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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…
Overview of the CrowdStrike Hospital Crisis
More than 750 U.S. hospitals experienced significant technology disruptions during the July 2024 CrowdStrike software failure, marking one of the most widespread cybersecurity incidents to impact healthcare infrastructure in…
