{"id":926796,"date":"2025-04-30T11:47:04","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T06:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=926796"},"modified":"2025-04-30T11:47:04","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T06:17:04","slug":"how-a-mistake-by-oracle-engineers-caused-software-outage-in-us-hospitals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/04\/30\/how-a-mistake-by-oracle-engineers-caused-software-outage-in-us-hospitals\/","title":{"rendered":"How a \u2018mistake\u2019 by Oracle engineers caused software outage in US hospitals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oracle engineers mistakenly triggered a five\u2010day software outage at multiple Community Health Systems (CHS) hospitals. The outage was tracked to the company\u2019s Oracle Health electronic health record (EHR) system, forcing affected facilities to revert to paper\u2010based patient records. The incident started last week, when routine maintenance work led engineers to accidentally delete critical storage tied to a core database. CHS activated its downtime procedures as \u201cseveral\u201d hospitals went offline, with trade outlet Becker\u2019s Hospital Review later reporting that 45 of CHS\u2019s 72 hospitals were impacted. A CHS spokesperson has also confirmed the outage and has clarified that it stemmed solely from a maintenance error and was neither a cyberattack nor a security breach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oracle engineers mistakenly triggered a five\u2010day software outage at multiple Community Health Systems (CHS) hospitals. The outage was tracked to the company\u2019s Oracle Health electronic health record (EHR) system, forcing affected facilities to revert to paper\u2010based patient records. The incident started last week, when routine maintenance work led engineers to accidentally delete critical storage tied to a core database. CHS activated its downtime procedures as \u201cseveral\u201d hospitals went offline, with trade outlet Becker\u2019s Hospital Review later reporting that 45 of CHS\u2019s 72 hospitals were impacted. A CHS spokesperson has also confirmed the outage and has clarified that it stemmed solely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-926796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=926796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=926796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=926796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=926796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}