Navigating Healthcare Cybersecurity: How Nurses Dealt With the Microsoft Outage

A recent global software outage, caused by an update by cybersecurity company CrowdStrike for Microsoft Windows machines, caused chaos in various sectors including healthcare, affecting hospital computer systems and electronic health records. The incident delayed patient care, surgeries and rerouted ambulances. The outage highlighted several important vulnerabilities, with nurses having to revert to manual processes such as paper documentation. The industry is now considering how to better prepare for and handle similar crises in the future.