UPDATE 2 P.M.
Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare issued the following update:
"Some of our outpatient clinics are currently using their system downtime procedures, which is not affecting our ability to care for patients. This is related to the global IT outage.
Patients are currently able to request an appointment over the phone and will receive a call back with an appointment. Patients may also request an appointment on our website for Primary Care offices."
UPDATE 1:10 P.M.
SGMC Health in Valdosta responded to our request for information regarding the outage with the statement below:
"SGMC Health is aware of the Microsoft and CrowdStrike global outage. We did not experience disruption to normal operations, although there were some information technology systems minimally impacted. We are fortunate to have a robust information system with redundancies in place to allow normal operations to continue when situations like this occur."
ABC 27 Florida Capitol Reporter, Forrest Saunders, also provided this update on agencies in Florida:
Final update: just got off the phone with @HealthyFla — no impacts from the @Microsoft Melty (though they’re still working through a recent cyber attack.)
— Forrest Saunders (@FBSaunders) July 19, 2024
Florida officials from all these agencies now say they are experiencing no impacts. @AHCA_FL telling me it’s monitoring…
ORIGINAL STORY:
A massive IT outage impacted computer systems around the world Friday morning. We checked with Tallahassee area hospitals to see if the outage was impacting their operations.
HCA Florida Capital Hospital told ABC 27's Channing Frampton, "our health system has not been directly impacted by CrowdStrike's technology issue and we are working with our vendors to understand any issues they may be facing. We do not expect the incident to impact our ability to provide care to our patients."
Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare said, "the Microsoft and CrowdStrike global outage is not affecting patient care at Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare (TMH), including hospital operations and TMH Physician Partners clinics. TMH is fully operational and seeing patients as normal."
ABC 27 has reached out to SGMC Health in Valdosta, Archbold in Thomasville and Memorial Hospital in Bainbridge regarding the outage. We'll update this story as soon as we hear back.
