Today's hot topic: The #CrowdStrike outage. No one is immune. The headlines are covering airports... ticketing counters are down, Spirit is checking bags with pen and paper (and we've all heard the horror stories of Spirit losing bags!), delays are affecting travel worldwide.
To the average person, the frustration of airport delays is understandable. But have you considered the impact at a #hospital? Have you stopped to think about the delays caused by resorting to paper charting? Are hospital staff even trained to handle paper charts? And what about the pharmacy? Have you considered the implications when a hospital's systems fail, and paper prescriptions are necessary, delaying the delivery of life-saving medications? Beyond the backlog of paperwork, hospital outages can literally be life-threatening.
It is clear that CrowdStrike is NOT facing a #CyberAttack, but rather an issue with new threat-monitoring update deployment pushed to Microsoft subscribers running workloads on Azure VM's and Windows. At the same time, it is evident that hospital systems require a robust plan to address the substantial impact of outages.
If uncertainty about your hospital system's readiness for outages or cyber attacks keeps you up at night, let's discuss how Experis Health Solutions through our partnership with ClearDATA, can provide support.
#HealthCareIT #HCIT #Outages #CyberSecurity
