computer crash

I get what Jenna is saying. At my clinical site and at hospitals all around the world, the ability to function efficiently depends almost entirely on computers. All of the patient records, charts, and data are on their computer database. Plus computers are also the main way in which the medical staff communicates with one another (through accessing updated charts everyone is on the same page). I recently asked what a hospital would do during a power outage or if the computers ever crashed. The nurse said that they have enough written records to get by. But our culture has become so accustomed to having technology and information at our fingertips that I don't think a hospital or our society, for that matter, could manage. At least until the system of doing things was totally revamped.