Cerner Upgrade

There was an upgrade of one of our major programs at work this weekend. I had not been involved in the prep, but on Friday, I went through some things to make sure those at my site were ready, and set up a meeting place or command center for our site. I then got one of the application teams worried by asking them about something they had not tested with the upgrade up to that point. We were going to start upgrade devices, we had about 70 at the General, at 2:30 this morning and finish all the computers by 6:30. They were going to page us half an hour before we could start upgrading to give us time to get in. My pager went off at 1:30 and I was in and starting the upgrades at 2:00. I had assigned the three that needed to be done first to me, and two of them needed to be installed manually. There was a problem with the manual install, there was a rights issue on the server. I was able to get that resolved with the server team, and everything went ok after that. The go live time kept getting pushed back, and was finally up at about 8. At about 6:30 or so we were told that something was added to cerner and we had to run something on all the computers we already hit. I was able to run that remotely on most of them. After the go live I went back to the ER to make sure those devices came up like they should. The general was all set and I was out of there a little after 9. It sounds like the other sites are having some network issues a while longer to finish, even though those site had a lot fewer devices than the general. Now it is time for me to get some shut eye.