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Yeah in Radiology we depend on Epic and a remote reading service called VRAD. VRAD runs on AWS and went down just after 0130 hrs EST. Without Epic & VRAD we were pretty helpless.

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Can't imagine how stressful this must have been for Radiology. I had two patients waiting on CT read with expectation to discharge if no acute findings. Had to let them know we had no clear estimate for when that would be, and might not even know when the read comes back if we can't access epic.

Have a family member in crit care who was getting a sepsis workup on a patient when this all happened. They somehow got plain film working offline after a bit of effort.

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