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‘It’s putting patients’ lives in danger’: Nurses say ransomware attack is stressing hospital operations
A ransomware attack on a major US hospital network that began three weeks ago is endangering patients’ health as nurses are forced to manually enter prescription information and work without electronic health records, nurses at two hospitals affected by the cyberattack told CNN.
The two Ascension nurses said in separate interviews that they felt overwhelmed by the abrupt shift to paper records following the cyberattack, underwhelmed by their hospitals’ plans for dealing with the situation and worried that they or their colleagues will make mistakes entering a patient’s vital medical information. In the wake of the Ascension hack and another ransomware attack in February that disrupted insurance billing at pharmacies across the US, Biden administration officials say they are preparing to release a set of minimum cybersecurity requirements for US hospitals. Andrew Witty, the CEO of UnitedHealth Group, which owns Change Healthcare, apologized in a recent congressional hearing for the security lapse and said he authorized a $22 million ransom payment to hackers to try to protect patient data.
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