Alberta Health Services

AHS officials say services are 'carefully being restored' with priority given to critical care areas, such as emergency departments.

We appreciate everyone's patience." During the outage, AHS said its emergency dispatch was functioning with backup procedures and calls to 911 were not affected. Health officials say a network outage affecting Alberta Health Services (AHS) has been resolved and services are "carefully being restored" with priority being given to critical patient areas, like emergency departments.

Doctors and staff at Alberta hospitals have been using paper charts, whiteboards and phone calls to communicate during a network outage, a senior official ...

“It’s all hands on deck,” he said. “We are investing heavily on that,” he said. It said emergency medical dispatch was functioning with backup procedures and calls to 911 were not affected, but some elective, non-urgent surgeries were postponed as a precaution. As I understand, it has never happened like this before. “It’s definitely impacting workflows. The agency, which delivers health care in Alberta, said in a statement early Monday that an outage was affecting some of its services.

Alberta Health Services (AHS) says "some services" will not be available for the time being.In a social media ...

AHS says 8-1-1 Health Link is unable to receive calls, and people should call 9-1-1 if they have an emergency. AHS tweeted out the alert earlier this morning ...

CALGARY - Doctors and staff at hospitals across Alberta have been using paper charts, whiteboards and phone calls to communicate with each other durin...

“It’s all hands on deck,” he said. “We are investing heavily on that,” he said. As I understand, it has never happened like this before. It said emergency medical dispatch was functioning with backup procedures and calls to 911 were not affected, but some elective, non-urgent surgeries were postponed as a precaution. “It’s definitely impacting workflows. Alberta Health Services said later in the day that the outage was being resolved.

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 ...

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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.

CALGARY — Doctors and staff at hospitals across Alberta are using paper charts, whiteboards and phone calls to communicate with each other during a network ...

"It's all hands on deck," he said. "We are investing heavily on that," he said. It said emergency medical dispatch was functioning with backup procedures and calls to 911 were not affected, but some elective, non-urgent surgeries were postponed as a precaution. As I understand, it has never happened like this before. "It's definitely impacting workflows. Alberta Health Services said later in the day that the outage was being resolved.