EDMONTON—A network outage that affected Alberta Health Services (AHS) for much of the day on Jan. 23 has been resolved and services are returning to normal, according to a 2 p.m. local time update on a temporary website the government health agency created to provide ongoing information.
The outage resulted in the postponement of some non-urgent, elective surgeries as a precaution to ensure emergency and urgent surgeries could continue, said AHS. Those patients impacted are being contacted to have their appointments rebooked.
While 911 services were not affected, AHS posted on Twitter at approximately 12:30 p.m. that backup procedures for EMS were being used during the outage….