Patient care technology disruptions associated with the CrowdStrike outage

JAMA Network Open

About The Study: 

This cross-sectional study of U.S. hospitals found that a widespread technology outage after a faulty cyber security software update on July 19, 2024, was associated with outages in patient-facing network services integral to care delivery. These findings suggest that internet measurement techniques may be useful for surveillance and study of critical digital health care infrastructure. 

Corresponding Author: To contact the corresponding author, Jeffrey L. Tully, MD, email jtully@health.ucsd.edu.

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(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.30226)

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