Microsoft outage: Pvt health care impacted briefly but govt facilities unaffected in Delhi

Healthcare services in the Capital were impacted by the global Microsoft outage prompting affected hospitals to switch to manual mode for record-keeping and other related work as back-up, people aware of the matter said.

“CrowdStrike is an endpoint antivirus system deployed on computer systems at Max Healthcare. Due to an outage of Crowdstrike around 10am today (July 19), many of our software applications used for patient care and other processes were impacted,” said a company spokesperson for Max Healthcare, in a written statement. The staff switched to manually documenting information.