Microsoft global outage forces health systems to cancel appointments, delay procedures
On Thursday, a widespread outage to Microsoft systems took down computers in health systems around the globe, leading many to cancel non-urgent medical appointments and surgeries as they encouraged patients to make plans for disrupted travel and delays in care.
“A major worldwide software outage has affected many of our systems at Mass General Brigham,” the hospital system shared in a said in a statement. “Due to the severity of this issue, all previously scheduled non-urgent surgeries, procedures, and medical visits are canceled today.”
