Ctrl+Alt+Disaster: How Oracle techies 'wrong click' brought nearly 50 hospitals to its knees for 5 days
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SynopsisOracle engineers accidentally caused a five-day outage across Community Health Systems hospitals after deleting key data during maintenance. The outage disrupted access to electronic health records, forcing a switch to paper records in 45 hospitals. CHS confirmed the issue was not a cyberattack and praised staff for maintaining care. The outage is the latest in a series of setbacks for Oracle’s EHR platform, including issues with federal deployments and the Department of Veterans Affairs.AgenciesA 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.#Pahalgam Terrorist AttackThe groundwork before India mounts a strike at PakistanIndia considers closin...