Hospitals Around the World Are Struggling in the Aftermath of the Great IT Meltdown

Update: 2024-07-23

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Doctors find themselves without critical systems and diagnostic tools—and face the daunting reality that a full recovery could take days—after CrowdStrike’s botched deployment of a software update.

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Hospitals Around the World Are Struggling in the Aftermath of the Great IT Meltdown

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