When a hospital gets hacked

It was back to pen and paper to update medical records for a month after Johnson Memorial was hit by the cyberattack. — TNS

In fall 2021, staffers at Johnson Memorial Health in Indiana, United States, were hoping they could finally catch their breath.

They were just coming out of a weeks-long surge of Covid-19 hospitalisations and deaths, fuelled by the SARS-CoV-2 Delta viral variant.