A senior official with Alberta Health Services says doctors and staff at hospitals are using paper charts, whiteboards and phone calls to communicate with each other during a network outage.
Officials say they're carefully restoring services with priority given to critical care areasAHS says a network outage impacting health-care services Monday is now resolved.
Earlier, AHS, which delivers health care across the province, said an outage was affecting some of its services. It said some elective, non-urgent surgeries were being postponed as a precaution and lab services had also been affected. "We are reviewing the network outage to determine root cause so that we can avoid such issues in the future. We appreciate everyone's patience."The outage had an impact across the province.
Dr. Sid Viner, vice-president and medical director for clinical operations with AHS, said the computer systems were largely down in hospitals.
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