18 hours Ago By James Paul
What would happen if a hospital’s electronic health record (EHR) suddenly went offline or was permanently obliterated? In a bid to digitize every aspect of healthcare, there are some downsides too that are rarely considered to be of any consequence. However, the recent EHR outage at several Community Health Systems (CHS) hospitals in the US has drawn attention to better contingencies and not getting back to scribbling vitals on a sheet of paper. But that is exactly what the hospital staff ended up doing when a glaringly inadvertent mistake by Oracle engineers caused a five-day digital outage at 45 CHS hospitals in the country.
See Also: Man Gets Trapped For 2 Days In Broken Hospital Lift; Internet Jibes ‘New Plot For Akshay Kumar Movie’ Per reports, the software blackout commenced on April 23, amid routine maintenance conducted by Oracle engineers that led to the deletion of critical EHR data storage. The inadvertent mistake caused chaos as the critical storage was connected to a key database. Hospitals never cease to operate even during the worst of wars, and none of the 45 affected out of 75 CHS based out of Tennessee did.
The issue has been fixed now after five days of blackout. The patient records digitally stored in the EHR are working seamlessly now. See Also: Dead Man Bumped Alive When Ambulance Hit Speed Breaker; Internet Suggests Installing One At Every Hospital Oracle acquired the EHR biz from Cerner in 2022 for a whopping $28.
3 billion. It stands second to Epic Systems. Oracle engineers caused days-long software outage at U.
S. hospitals https://t.co/EA7x3kaoaT — CNBC (@CNBC) April 28, 2025 The 45 CHS hospitals affected by the Oracle Health outage https://t.
co/paHE8YQSwo pic.twitter.com/IeNWpBxwT6 — Becker's Hospital Review (@BeckersHR) April 28, 2025 New: Oracle engineers mistakenly triggered a 5-day software outage at a number of Community Health Systems hospitals, causing them to activate downtime procedures.
The engineers deleted critical storage connected to a key database on accident, CHS said. https://t.co/tlGzxJRXJe — Ashley Capoot (@ashleycapoot) April 29, 2025 After accidental deletion by Oracle Health engineers brought down EHRs, Community Health Systems says hospitals' downtime nearly over https://t.
co/zKmDrwaCew — FierceHealthcare (@FierceHealth) April 29, 2025 See Also: NASA Spacecraft Films Crazy Vortex While Flying Through Sun's Atmosphere See Also: Elon Musk, Anupam Mittal, And Others Troll Meta And Zuckerberg With Memes Amid Instagram’s Global Outage See Also: AI-Powered Robot Goes On A Rampage At Chinese Festival Alarming The Internet: ‘Not A Bug—It's A Warning’ Cover: Patrick Gawande / Mashable India.
