The Economic Times reports:
A software malfunction triggered by Oracle engineers led to a five-day outage at multiple Community Health Systems (CHS) hospitals last week, forcing several facilities to switch to paper records after losing access to their digital systems. The disruption began on 23 April during scheduled maintenance, when Oracle personnel mistakenly deleted storage linked to a core patient database.
According to a CHS spokesperson, the outage was not caused by a cyberattack or data breach, but rather a human error during system maintenance. The affected hospitals activated emergency “downtime procedures” as their electronic health record (EHR) systems went offline.
… Trade publication Becker’s Hospital Review reported that 45 of CHS’s 72 hospitals were affected. CHS operates across 14 states and is one of the largest publicly traded health systems in the United States. Its hospitals depend on Oracle Health’s EHR platform to manage patient histories, appointments, and clinical workflows.
Read more at MSN.
