Back Online at HSHS Hospitals News | September 13, 2023 | 0 | by Morgan McCarthy Things are slowly coming back online at HSHS hospitals. The hospital system yesterday said its EPIC platform, which allows patients to schedule appointments online and send messages to their health care providers, came back online. HSHS has been dealing with a number of problems since something happened to its computer network at the end of August. No one is calling it a hack, but the ‘system outage’ froze phone lines and locked-out HSHS hospitals across the country.