Dive Brief:
- On Monday, the Veterans Health Administration (VA) suffered a computer outage.
- The outage affected hospitals from the Mid-Atlantic through the Northeast.
- The cause of the outage was undetermined; it was resolved the same day.
Dive Insight:
VA Deputy Director for Media Relations Walinda West said in a statement on Monday that there was "an IT service disruption" that impacted the VA Health System. West said the outage did not have an impact on patient care, but did affect the phone system.