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DPH describes Zuckerberg San Francisco General data-center overheating incident; no patient data lost

San Francisco Health Commission · March 19, 2019
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Summary

Acting CIO Winona Miedolovich told the commission a chiller failure and multiple alert failures caused partial server outages on March 2 at a Zuckerberg San Francisco General data-center; clinical systems were down between ~2.5 and 5.5 hours depending on the application, there was no confirmed data loss, and DPH will complete an after-action review with recommendations within 90 days.

The Department of Public Health reported to the Health Commission that on March 2 a data-center room overheated at a facility supporting Zuckerberg San Francisco General, causing intermittent server outages. Acting chief information officer Winona Miedolovich said the problem stemmed from a chiller that failed to fail over to backup units and from a cascade of alert failures.

Miedolovich described four alert layers; she said the first three failed and only the fourth produced an email that prompted a manager to contact on-call…

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