Becker's Healthcare July 21, 2025
More than 750 U.S. hospitals experienced technology disruptions tied to the July 2024 CrowdStrike software failure, with nearly one in five outages affecting systems used directly in patient care, according to a study published July 19 in JAMA Network Open.
The analysis, led by researchers at the University of California San Diego, is among the first to quantify the impact of the global IT failure on healthcare delivery. The team used internet scanning techniques to monitor digital signals from hospitals using the Epic EHR platform before, during and after the software outage.
The July 19, 2024, incident began when CrowdStrike released a faulty update to its Falcon cybersecurity software, which caused widespread crashes in computers running certain versions of Windows....
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