A worldwide tech outage has disrupted England’s National Health Service (NHS), affecting the booking of doctor appointments and patient records. The outage, linked to cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike’s impact on Microsoft Windows, affected multiple industries globally. Despite the issue, emergency services remained unaffected. The NHS has adopted temporary measures to manage the disruption. The outage is not being treated as a malicious act.
$14M more for EMR implementation in Victoria and more briefs
Victoria’s government is investing A$21.4 million to replace paper-based medical records with electronic systems in four health services, including The Royal Eye and Ear Hospital