Cybersecurity Downtime and Patient Safety | Episode 67

Lexcura Clinical Insights · Sep 27, 2026 · 12m

When a hospital’s electronic systems go down, patient care continues—but access to records, orders, test results, and communication may change. In this episode of Lexcura Clinical Insights, Michelle Carroll explores how attorneys can examine the clinical impact of a downtime event without assuming that the disruption itself proves a failure of care.

Using a fictional case, she explains how to define which systems and functions were unavailable, locate temporary records, distinguish when an event occurred from when it was documented, and trace a test result through communication to clinical…