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[Year] Nov 2002 [Description] Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center's computer system crashed repeatedly over 31/2 days, periodically blocking access to patient records, prescriptions, laboratory reports, and other information, and forcing the hospital to revert to the paper-based systems of what one executive called ''the hospital of the 1970s.'' Hospital executives said yesterday that patient safety was never jeopardized. But scores of employees worked overtime printing records, double-checking doses, physically running messages from the labs to the wards and back - even rushing out to buy copier paper. The crisis took the hospital by surprise. [References] CIO Magazine Feb 15, 2003 [Name] 
Repeated crashes of hospital information system
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