Major health care system hobbled by ‘cyber incident’

[rbc]

scension, a health care system with 140 hospitals in 19 states and Washington, D.C., and tens of thousands of employees and affiliated providers, detected a “cyber security event” Wednesday that has caused a “disruption to clinical operations,” the company said.

Major impacts to medical services have been reported in multiple states, including Kansas, Florida and Michigan, including some patients being diverted to other hospitals and lack of access to digital records.

“We have to write everything on paper,” one physician in Michigan told the Detroit Free Press. “It’s like the 1980s or 1990s.”
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Major health care system hobbled by ‘cyber incident’