The Charleston, S.C.-based hospital was locked out of email and access to some patient records because of the outage. Roper St. Francis Hospital did have to delay some medical procedures; however, the outage did not have a significant impact on operations, WCIV reports.
It is unclear what caused the outage. Roper St. Francis Hospital was able to get the computer systems back online later that evening.
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