Without access to Epic we can't place med orders, look up patient records, discharge patients from the hospital, enter them into our system, really much of anything. Every provider in the emergency department is on their computer placing orders and doing work when not interacting with a patient. Like most hospitals in this country, our entire workflow depends on Epic. We couldn't even run blood tests because the lab was down too.

The STEMI was stabilized, it's more that it was scary to lose every machine in the department at once while intubating a crashing patient. You're flying blind in a lot of ways.