{"id":528281,"date":"2026-03-17T06:29:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T06:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/528281\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T06:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T06:29:13","slug":"access-to-patient-records-restored-after-brief-outage-at-vanderbilt-university-medical-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/528281\/","title":{"rendered":"Access to patient records restored after brief outage at Vanderbilt University Medical Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) &#8211; Vanderbilt University Medical Center said Monday that it was briefly unable to access any patient medical records amid a system outage. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Vanderbilt phone operations reported it was an effect of an outage of the Epic system, which maintains medical records for providers across the nation. <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"link | text-reset d-block h-100 w-100\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsmv.com\/page\/our-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"WSMV - template image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1773728953_263_PYQCNXWUIVE27BALA565ZY2LFQ.png\" width=\"980\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Amid the reported outage, medical providers were unable to access any of their patients\u2019 records, per VUMC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Epic said in a statement to WSMV that it was \u201caware of one healthcare organization experiencing technical issues,\u201d but declined to provide further details. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">At about 11 a.m., VUMC shared an update saying access to patient records had been restored. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cPatient safety remains our top priority. Due to an issue earlier this morning with our electronic health record system, Vanderbilt University Hospital (VUH) was placed on temporary diversion status,\u201d a message from a hospital spokesperson said. \u201cHowever, the issue is now resolved and VUH has resumed normal operations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">This is a developing story. Check back for updates. <\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WSMV. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) &#8211; Vanderbilt University Medical Center said Monday that it was briefly unable to access any&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":528282,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[9551,97,252,253,3729,3,3233,13686,237540],"class_list":["post-528281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health-care","tag-epic","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare","tag-local","tag-news","tag-outage","tag-tn","tag-vanderbilt-hospital"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/528282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}