It’s my job to know what’s going on and even I don’t know!
Seems wild that they’re validating parking like that. Either the hospital is crazy overreliant on Stryker systems, or their IT department has a stupidly restrictive “ransomware event” playbook that they’re following to their own peril.
Apparently all of EPIC was down for the whole country.
Health plan cyber threat intelligence chiming in—I couldn’t verify this claim. Epic’s EHR was unaffected unless the provider/hospital’s connection was handled by an affected Stryker “network bridge” (quotes because I’m not totally certain of the architecture here).
EDIT: But this was the first I heard of Epic being impacted, which is valuable intel. Thank you, and hope you feel better!
EDIT 2: Best I can tell, Stryker’s relationship to Epic is that it’s a data source for a few things that may be relayed to Epic, not any kind of network backbone. Stryker supports a lot of surgical equipment, so maybe that’s why folks like you getting a procedure are being paper charted.
For sure, nobody does! The art of the teach is so important.
Boardgaming!
I own a modest company collection, run weekly boardgame nights, and demo boardgames at conventions for a large publisher. It helped me meet a lot of fantastic people. Boardgamers are some of the coolest nerds out there.
He even has Patel’s eyes.