Electronic Health Record Outage Makes UK Hospitals Revert to Pen and Paper
October 12, 2022
The Oracle Cerner electronic health records (EHR) experienced and outage yesterday, October 11th, leaving many hospitals in the UK out on a limb. In response, many healthcare systems had to switch back to pen and paper records. The issue with the platform has been resolved this morning as of 9AM.
According to Lindsay Clark, “In an intriguing twist, a shortage of paper was said to be exacerbating the outage at the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. Users questioned what would happen if the trust ran out during the downtime procedure and pointed out that the trust had been running a campaign for users to “go paperless” using an appointment booking portal.”
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(Source: The Register, October 12th, 2022)