Some hospitals opted to cancel elective and non-emergency surgeries.
Dustin Franz/Bloomberg via Getty Imagesglobal IT outageThe outages, which stalled internal and external systems on Microsoft-based computers, were caused by a faulty update from CrowdStrike -- an American cybersecurity technology firm that provides cloud workload protection, threat intelligence and cyberattack response services
Signage is displayed outside the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center in Cincinnati, Ohio, July 16, 2020.Those affected include Cleveland Clinic, Cincinnati Children's, Kaleida Health/Cayuga in Buffalo, Harris Health System in Texas, Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City, Martha's Vineyard Hospital, Mass General, Memorial Hermann in Texas, Mount Sinai in New York, Nationwide Children's Hospital in Ohio and Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center.
"Many of our Microsoft-based computer systems have been affected by the worldwide technology outage," Cincinnati Children's said in a statement. "Our teams are working hard to minimize disruption to patient care and system operations, and we are bringing systems back up as quickly as possible."it was canceling non-urgent surgeries, procedures and medical appointments for Friday.some services remained open but elective procedures scheduled for Friday had been canceled.
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