During today’s #HITsm chat, Twitter went down. Well, the web interface for Twitter went down. We could still access Twitter through third party vendors...
EHR Downtime
Showed up for my #Covid19 test today at @cvspharmacy. When I got to the window they told me they couldn’t test me because their system was down. Why...
New research from a consulting organization suggests that while new technologies beckon and COVID continues to disrupt operations, healthcare leaders remain...
EHRs are going to crash and go offline from time to time. But are physicians and hospitals prepared to deal with the fallout when this happens? The answer...
What if your hospital couldn’t reliably perform any of the top three Hospital National Patient Safety Goals, as specified by the Joint Commission, above –...
Erin McCann at Healthcare IT News wrote a recent report on a McKesson EHR outage at Rideout Health after an HVAC unit burned out. In the article she also talks...
Iron Triangle strikes! > Deadlines extended 4 meaningful use #EHR #EMR … pic.twitter.com/ds6vj3AWdP — Charles Webster, MD (@wareFLO) February 9, 2014...
I’ve been writing for a number of years on the challenge that EMR downtime causes a clinic. In case you missed them, check out some of the following...
Earlier this month, health IT superstar John Halamka, MD, MS posted a story talking about how network downtime within a hospital has changed over the past 10...
Whew! Cerner isn’t going to live this one down easily. According to reports from the field, Cerner’s hosted EMR service was down for most of...