second critical failure<\/a> in less than a month and put patient safety at risk, after clinicians were forced to use pen and paper throughout the night in late January.<\/p>\n“The PACs system impacted by the outage is a critical function of our hospitals which clinicians rely on to access images so they can assess and treat patients needing urgent treatment in EDs, in operating theatres and elsewhere.<\/p>\n
“The outage means clinicians and radiographers must communicate by text and phone to pass on vital information from scans.<\/p>\n
“Without a doubt this will slow down treatment, compromising care,” Fitzsimons said.<\/p>\n
Fitzsimons said the government needs to immediately review funding for health digital services and IT infrastructure.<\/p>\n
A Health New Zealand spokesperson said the outage was resolved quickly without affecting patient services.<\/p>\n
“During the outage standard back-up processes were used for the reviewing of radiology images.”<\/p>\n
The spokesperson said services were fully restored within two hours and patient care was not compromised.<\/p>\n
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