Fallout from cyberattack at Ascension Hospitals persists, causing delays in patient care

Ascension, one of the US’ largest medical systems with 140 hospitals in 19 states, has yet to recover from a large-scale cyberattack earlier this month. — The New York Times

In more than a dozen US states, doctors and nurses have resorted to paper and handwritten treatment orders to chart patient illnesses and track them, unable to access the detailed medical histories that have long been available only through computerised records.

Patients have waited for long stints in emergency rooms, and their treatments have been delayed while lab results and readings from machines such as MRIs are ferried through makeshift efforts lacking the speed of electronic uploads.