EHR Downtime Newsletter
THE CONTINUITY BRIEF / FREE NEWSLETTER
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A free brief on EHR downtime for healthcare IT, security and clinical leaders, with a hospital breach tracker, compliance watch and Spare Tire release notes.
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What you’ll get.
One theme, backed by peer-reviewed or primary sources.
In every issue
- A Breach Tracker of this year’s hospital outages: how long the EHR was down, and how long clinics stayed closed after it came back.
- A Compliance Watch on the HIPAA Security Rule update and the AHA / Joint Commission 30-day outage benchmark.
- One outage told day by day, such as Ascension’s 37 days without the EHR.
- Everything Spare Tire released to production since the last issue.
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IN THE LATEST ISSUE
What Ransomware Does to Patients Already Admitted
Patients already admitted when ransomware hit a US hospital were up to 38% more likely to die in the hospital. AnMed Health restored its EHR 16 days into its July 2026 outage and still had 11 facilities closed two days later. What happens to the patients already in the bed when the EHR goes dark. Sources: AEJ: Economic Policy, HIPAA Journal, Becker’s Hospital Review.
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When the EHR goes dark: lessons from UMMC and Brockton
The University of Mississippi Medical Center closed 35 clinics after the February 2026 Epic outage. Brockton Hospital ran two weeks on paper after the April 2026 Anubis attack. What separated the hospitals that kept treating patients from the ones that diverted them. Sources: HIPAA Journal, FBI.
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