Boston Children's suffers EHR outage
Boston Children’s Hospital experienced a system outage that began on the afternoon of March 20. Portions of the electronic system for patient care, such as ordering labs, pharmacy and electronic prescription writing were impacted.
Digital imaging, patient registration and scheduling were not impacted, according to a statement emailed to Clinical Innovation + Technology. "The outage was quickly identified, and the staff quickly shifted to patient care services that don’t rely on electronic systems, such as face-to-face communications, direct hand-offs, read backs and running pharmacy notes from floor to pharmacy."
The system was fully restored on March 25.
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