Some of the various estimates of the total damage worldwide have stretched well into the billions of dollars. It reveals evidence that hundreds of those hospitals' services were disrupted during the outage, and raises concerns about potentially grave effects to patients’ health and well-being. A chart showing a massive spike in detected medical service outages on the day of CrowdStrike’s crashes. “Drawing conclusions about downtime and patient impact without verifying the findings with any of the hospitals mentioned is completely irresponsible and scientifically indefensible,” the statement reads. “While we reject the methodology and conclusions of this report, we recognize the impact the incident had a year ago,” the statement adds.