The entire impact of the worldwide IT outage that occurred on July 19 is still not fully understood two months later.
A malicious software update sent by the US cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike rendered up to 8.5 million Microsoft Windows devices worldwide inoperable.
Senior CrowdStrike executive Adam Meyers will appear before the US Congress on Tuesday to discuss the events that transpired and the company’s plans to avoid a repeat of the catastrophe.
For the last 22 years, Dr. David Wrigley has been a general practitioner. He told the BBC that in the most severe cases, it led to potential delays in cancer therapies.
He claimed that it was a very trying time with minimal assistance.
The EMIS system, a digital method of scheduling appointments, keeping track of patient information, and faxing prescriptions to pharmacies, was inaccessible to a large number of general practitioners.
Medical professionals in the UK are represented by the British Medical Association, a trade union and professional group, which called the CrowdStrike outage “one of the toughest single days in recent times for GPs across England” and forced them to resume using pen and paper.
Computer issues persisted from Friday to Monday at Dr. Wrigley’s Carnforth, Lancashire, practice.
