CrowdStrike outage disrupts hospitals, reveals healthcare IT flaws

Epic Systems, which is the most widely used medical-records system in the U.S., says the outage prevented hospitals from using its tools and products.

The ongoing major IT outage that’s being blamed on a content update from cybersecurity giant CrowdStrike is disrupting a wide swath of industries Friday, from airlines to banking. But arguably no sector has been worse off than healthcare.