It was half past midnight Eastern Standard Time when Andrew Rosenberg, an anesthesiologist and critical care doctor who works as chief information officer at Michigan Medicine, suddenly noticed that a substantial number of computers across the healthcare center had ceased to function. In the hospital’s parlance, it counted as a “catastrophic major incident.
In April, Sofia Mettler, at the time a resident physician at Mount Auburn Hospital, published a paper in JAMA Internal Medicine in which she described a day where the hospital’s EMR system was down for a period of seven to eight hours.
We have summarized this news so that you can read it quickly. If you are interested in the news, you can read the full text here. Read more: