 A global communications outage caused major effects at some Rhode Island businesses and agencies today. The Rhode Island DMV opened late today due to the outage. All appointments scheduled for this morning will be honored through Wednesday, July 31st. A statement from Lifespan said some Lifespan facilities are experiencing IT outages due to a global IT issue through CrowdStrike, a Cypress security vendor. Our hospitals will continue to perform all urgent procedures and will monitor the situation for non-urgent procedures.