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And now, Preston and Steve's news update with Kathy Romano.

Today is Tuesday, September 29th.

Good morning, Kathy.

Good morning in the news this morning.

A computer outage at a major hospital chain based in King of Prussia

thrust healthcare facilities across the U.S. into chaos Monday with treatment impeded as doctors and nurses already burdened by the coronavirus pandemic were forced to rely on paper backup systems.

Universal Health Services Incorporated, which operates more than 250 hospitals and other clinical facilities in the United States

blame the outage on an unspecified IT security issue in a statement posted on its website Monday

but provided no details about the incident such as how many facilities were affected and whether

patients had to be diverted to other hospitals. UHS workers reached the Associated Press at company facilities in Texas,

and Washington, D.C. described mad scrambles after the outage began overnight Sunday to render

care, including longer emergency room weights and anxiety over determining which patients might

be infected with the virus that causes COVID-19. The Fortune 500 company with 90,000 employees said patient care continues to be delivered

safely and effectively, and no patient or employee data appeared to have been access, copied,

or misused.

Do you remember years ago there was the big push to convert all the analog, all the paper,

documents over to computers and so on and so forth, and how long that took?

Yeah.

I wonder if a lot of the places stored those papers.

Papers?

I'm sure.

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