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AHS postpones elective surgeries amid Alberta-wide network outage (CTV Toronto)

Alberta Health Services is postponing some elective surgeries as a province-wide network outage continues to impact some services.

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Provincewide AHS network outage prompts postponement of some ... (Calgary Herald)

AHS sources say 811 staff are using whiteboards and phone lines to keep track of information and are unable to access patient info.

. . “There’s no higher priority than to get that clinical support technology up and running as fast as possible.” “The clinical support, Connect Care and NetCare, is down, and everybody knows that’s not a good thing,” Dr. Sahlen said that means none of the calls sent to AHS during the outage were recorded. Calgary 911 acting commander Glenda Sahlen told Postmedia the phone lines between its call centre and AHS dispatch were “still unstable” Monday afternoon. Health Link (811) and a number of computer systems used by hospitals and clinics were down through the morning and early afternoon, and lab services were reduced at some sites.

Alberta-wide 'network outage' leads to postponing non-urgent ... (Globalnews.ca)

On Monday morning, some elective, non-urgent surgeries were postponed “as a precaution.” AHS said affected patients would be contacted to rebook their ...

“This ensures we can continue to provide patient care.” “We are working to restore service and will provide updates as soon as possible,” said AHS. “The technical issue causing the provincial AHS network outage has been resolved and teams are working quickly to restore all clinical systems, which will take a few hours,” AHS said in a tweet.

Alberta Health Services experiencing network outage | CityNews ... (660 News)

Callers to CityNews say some hospitals are without internet completely. However, AHS says 911 calls are unaffected and EMS dispatch is up and running “with ...

AHS facing province-wide system outage (CochraneNow.com)

Alberta Health Services (AHS) is experiencing a province-wide outage that is affecting various different resources. Just after 9 a.m. on Monday (Jan.

As a result, it was announced that AHS would be postponing some elective, non-urgent surgeries until the outage has been fixed. "Wait times will be longer than usual as we restore full service." "Health Link 811 continues to be available in a limited capacity," said AHS in a tweet.

AHS experiencing province-wide network outage, impacting some ... (AM800 (iHeartRadio))

Alberta Health Services says it is experiencing a province-wide outage, which is impacting services.

AHS says it is reviewing the cause of the issue to learn how to prevent it from happening again in the future. We are reviewing the cause of the issue to learn how we can prevent this from happening in the future. Alberta Health Services (AHS) says technical issues that led to a province-wide network outage have been resolved and teams are working to restore clinical systems, which may "take a few hours."

AHS update on Province-wide outage (LacombeOnline.com)

EMS dispatch is functioning with back-up procedures and calls to 911 are not affected. In an emergency, people should continue to call 911. Our teams are ...

All patients will be contacted directly, and procedures rebooked as soon as possible. We continue to work on restoring services as soon as possible. As a precaution, AHS is postponing some elective, non-urgent surgeries until the outage is resolved.

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