American Hospital Association November 13, 2024
A United Nations Security Council meeting the week of Nov. 4 discussed ransomware and the severe impacts that cyberattacks can have on hospitals and health systems. During the meeting, Eduardo Conrado, president of Ascension Healthcare, shared insights from a cyberattack in May that disrupted operations across the health system’s 120 hospitals. The attack encrypted thousands of computer systems and made electronic health records inaccessible. It also affected key diagnostic services, including magnetic resonance imaging and computed tomography scans.
Among the challenges, “nurses were unable to look up patient records from their computer stations and were forced to comb through paper back-ups… imaging teams were unable to quickly send the latest scans up to surgeons waiting in the operating rooms,...
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