Fresh glitch crashes hospital lab’s IT system

Cork University Hospital has had to apologise again after another IT glitch crashed its laboratory computer system.

The latest fault in the system — which was crippled for several weeks last August — occurred on Wednesday morning and brought the system down for most of the day. IT staff responded immediately and managed to fully restore the system by the evening.

But while the system was down, laboratory staff had to report results manually and urgent tests were processed before those classed as routine or non urgent.