Patient Care Technology Disruptions Associated With the CrowdStrike Outage
This cross-sectional study of US hospitals found that a widespread technology outage was associated with outages in patient-facing network services integral to care delivery. These findings suggest that internet measurement techniques may be useful for surveillance and study of critical digital health care infrastructure.
Authors
- Sumanth Rao (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0075-457X)
- Christian Dameff (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9613-2603)
- Isabel Straw (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0003-3550)
- Stefan Savage (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6617-8029)
- Chris Longhurst (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4908-6856)
- Geoffrey M. Voelker (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0865-7499)
- Rodney A. Gabriel (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4443-0021)
- Jeffrey Tully (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3537-6716)
Institutions
- University of California San Diego (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- JAMA Network Open
- Published
- 2025-07-19
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.30226
- Citations
- 4
- Primary Topic
- Electronic Health Records Systems
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 11.75
Funders
- University of California, San Diego