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UHN hospitals experiencing network outage, website down

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UHN outage affects patients’ appointments, hospital operations
WATCH ABOVE: An outage to the University Health Network's digital system led to patient appointments being cancelled and hospital operations being affected. Ahmar Khan reports – Jan 9, 2023

The University Health Network says it is experiencing an outage with its network.

In a tweet Monday just before 1 p.m., the UHN said it was working “to resolve the issue.”

By 2 p.m., the network’s website was still unavailable.

In a statement emailed to Global News, Gillian Howard, a spokesperson for the UHN said the network is “experiencing outages in our digital systems across our networks.”

“Our digital team is investigating the issues and will update periodically,” the statement read. “Clinical areas are using down time procedures at this time.”

It was not immediately clear what caused the outage.

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The University Health Network includes Toronto General Hospital, Toronto Western Hospital, the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, the Toronto Rehabilitation Institute and the Michener Institute.

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