---
title: "Robocalls are overwhelming hospitals and patients, threatening a new kind of health crisis"
metaTitle: "Robocalls Overwhelm Hospitals"
slug: robocalls-overwhelm-hospitals
date: "2019-06-23T15:53:57-05:00"
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sourcePublisher:
  name: The Denver Post
  url: www.denverpost.com
sourceArticle:
  url: " https://www.denverpost.com/2019/06/23/hospital-robocall-health-crisis/"
legacySlug: robocalls-are-overwhelming-hospitals-and-patients-threatening-a-new-kind-of-health-crisis
tags: [Healthcare, Hospitals, Robocalls]
status: published
---

In the heart of Boston, Tufts Medical Center treats scores of health conditions, from administering measles vaccines for children to pioneering next-generation tools that can eradicate the rarest of cancers.

But doctors, administrators and other hospital staff struggled to contain a much different kind of epidemic one April morning last year: a wave of thousands of robocalls that spread, like a virus, from one phone line to the next, disrupting communications for hours to come.

For most Americans, such robocalls represent an unavoidable digital-age nuisance, resulting in constant interruptions targeting their phones each month. For hospitals, though, the spam calls amount to a literal life-or-death challenge, one that increasingly is threatening doctors and patients in a setting where every second can count.

Source: https://www.denverpost.com/2019/06/23/hospital-robocall-health-crisis/