[Pinus]

Is this the same Oracle/Cerner system ("Millennium", I believe) that, despite protests from the medical staff, was deployed "big-bang style" in the Swedish region of Västra Götaland, with much the same results? (And where during a press conference, where the management was explaining how nearly everything was going to plan, a doctor, who had somehow sneaked in, got up, shouted something to the effect of "you’re lying, it’s a bloody disaster!" and stormed out.)

(That was not an outage, though — as far as I understand the system was working, it just didn’t actually work...)

[shigawire]

Swedish privacy laws for EHRs are quite different compared to other countries.

So I'm not surprised any software not purpose built for for that market would fail. And we know Oracle is not investing in R&D for Millennium since all efforts are out into their forthcoming AI based EHR - whatever that actually means....

[harvey9]

Could be, but oracle only bought cerner a few years ago and millennium has been around much longer. Other EMR systems are also dreadful - my spouse has some stories about EPIC for example.