Hospitals faced chaos as IT outage disabled Windows systems globally, causing computer and medical device failures, resorting to pen and paper for operations.
Mass General Brigham restricts care to urgent cases among 2.5 million annual patients; issue extended to hundreds of hospitals nationally; staff and patients document chaos on social media.
'Our highest priority is ensuring patients receive safest care, dedicating resources to resolve this quickly,' Mass General Brigham apologizes for inconvenience caused.
Mount Sinai Health System in NY affected, employees resort to pen and paper charting; NewYork-Presbyterian not 'directly impacted' by the IT issue in its hospitals.
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