Four details:
1. The hospital implemented downtime procedures and worked to get the systems back online after a technical disruption.
2. Some appointments and elective procedures were canceled due to the incident.
3. The hospital’s five family health centers also lost computer access; nurses and doctors could not access lab results, prescriptions or health history.
4. In the past week, Omaha-based Nebraska Medicine as well as Las Vegas-based Valley Health System reported similar computer outages.
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