Tag: Mass General Brigham and Women ‘ s Hospital

Hospitals around the world are struggling with the aftermath of IT

Several major healthcare systems in the US, UK and Canada have reported outages due to a bug in a Windows software update that was widely distributed by cybersecurity company CrowdStrike. Mass General Brigham and Women’s Hospital, one of America’s biggest healthcare systems, cancelled all non-urgent surgery, procedures and medical visits and declared a critical incident affecting systems used to deliver radiotherapy treatments.

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