Another big outage on the Internet

[Mendalla]

This time, rather than one of the big clouds being down, it was Cloudflare. Cloudflare is a service provider that does things like caching websites to improve performance and securing websites against hackers, bots, etc. The problem is that when you use Cloudflare (we don't but a lot of forum sites do), all your traffic is routed through them so if they go down, you go down. And that's exactly what happened. Of the half dozen or so sites I frequent only two were up this morning, this one and Floorworld (my favourites singer's fan site). And two web apps that we use at work went down, too. It's the "all your eggs in one basket" problem again but different eggs in a different basket.

Cloudflare outage knocks out parts of internet as work underway on fix - National | Globalnews.ca

A technical issue hitting internet infrastructure firm Cloudflare has sent a ripple effect across parts of the internet Tuesday morning with multiple global outages reported.

globalnews.ca

For the record, I have considered Cloudflare for here for a couple applications (esp. blocking bots, who are sometimes causing performance issues) but we are not using it nor am I moving ahead with it in the near future.

 

[Waterfall]

Is it time to get a landline?....lol

 

[Luce NDs]

I've heard it preached that such intel and information systems can't go wrong ... and yet there you are ... repeat after me:

• Nothing can go wrong ...

Well at least anything the blinded could see ... so it goes ... something les passes ...

Does America require a golden toilet?

We got it any how ... just for the pain of learning how it can go ...

 

[Mendalla]

Is it time to get a landline?....lol

I'm not sure you can still get them. I think they are all VOIP (Voice over Internet) now. But cell phones still operate independently of the Internet unless you're calling using an app like Teams or Whatsapp (or Facetime for the Apple crowd).

 

[Mrs.Anteater]

I am worried when our health system is going all digital. ( they have been working on it for years). Someone told me the system we are getting is coming from somewhere in the US- and they down there have already been getting rid of it. Not sure if that was true.
Looking at how many emails we already getting that they are doing maintenance on this and on that and such and such is down….I really don’t believe in it….

 

[Luce NDs]

Nothing works better ... even best that is why that drift towards nothing ... there we discover all pain is gone as a pathology!

Some even worship nothing as the way to go ... and there it went ... in so many words that folk refused!

My gran pappy was fascinated with the item of absence ... it became a great love (perhaps all in the mind they say).

Is love psyche ???

 

[Mendalla]

they have been working on it for years

More like decades, at least in Ontario. If even half the money they have spent on endless reams of consultants, reports, and half-assed plans had actually gone into building a system, we would have an EHR now. It can be done, it can even be done securely and with respect for privacy, but government just throwing money at every consultant who has even a vague connection to healthcare ain't how you do it. I predict a bunch of half-assed provincial EHR systems with bullseyes on their backs if it keeps going the way it is now.

Based on work I've been involved in, I can see how an interconnected healthcare system will make things like referrals, prescriptions, lab requisitions, and so on (and the results from those lab tests and referral consultations) flow more easily between providers. But that doesn't require a full EHR. Just well-designed integrations among existing systems will do that.

 

[Luce NDs]

What are powerful people as good at as waste ... it is prodigal! They have little appreciation if they haven't been shorted or redacted ... wait for it!

 

[Mendalla]

A topical cartoon from xkcd.

 

[jimkenney12]

We have a My Chart system that includes the Ottawa Hospital and the Hawkesbury Regional Hospital and Dynacare. It works well .for us most of the time. The only problem is it does not include some of the specialists we see dnd it fies not setm to include our family physician.

 

[Mendalla]

We have a My Chart system that includes the Ottawa Hospital and the Hawkesbury Regional Hospital and Dynacare. It works well .for us most of the time. The only problem is it does not include some of the specialists we see dnd it fies not setm to include our family physician.

Similar. We have access to our hospital chart through a new system they just rolled out and then we use Lifelabs for tests and they have their own system. Would be nice to have "one place to look" but as I commented in another discussion about EHRs, it's a ways off here in Ontario (based on my work in healthcare IT).