The failed systems led to issues with properly dispensing medications, verifying physician orders, reviewing patient labs, MRIs and other diagnostic procedures, and led to an inability for clinicians to review patient records, according to hospital nurses.
Additionally, the hospital did not have a backup plan in place after closing its ED, the release alleged. “How many hospitals are compromising the lives of their patients by not having a back up or plan of action in place for a catastrophic event as this?” said Maria Altamirano, RN, a nurse at Antelope Valley Hospital, in the release.
The hospital nurses have asked the Los Angeles County of Department of Public Health to investigate the system failure.
This system crash closely follows news of another California hospital who recently reported a system shutdown. Rideout Memorial Hospital in Marysville, Calif., reported a system blackout in the end of February due to a burned-out heating unit at an off-site data center that failed to recover. Patient records were not available and email was not functional during the shutdown.
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