---
title: "Tech Policy Robocalls are overwhelming hospitals and patients, threatening a new kind of health crisis"
metaTitle: "Tech Policy Hospital Robocall Crisis"
slug: tech-policy-hospital-robocall-crisis
date: "2019-06-17T15:41:48-05:00"
image:
  src: "https://cdn.securelogix.dev/slx/images/undefined.webp"
sourcePublisher:
  name: Washington Post
  url: wapo.st
sourceArticle:
  url: "https://wapo.st/2JkkeBk"
legacySlug: tech-policy-robocalls-are-overwhelming-hospitals-and-patients-threatening-a-new-kind-of-health-crisis
tags: [Healthcare, Hospitals, Phone Scam, Robocalls]
status: published
---

In the heart of Boston, Tufts Medical Center treats scores of health conditions, administering measles vaccines for children and 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...