Four details:
- The hospital discovered it was the victim of a cyberattack Sept. 29 and had to suspend all IT systems.
- Hospital employees have had to revert to using paper and pen to minimize disrupting hospital operations, WKKG reported Oct. 7.
- Meditech core operations, enterprise printer systems, and picture archiving and communications systems are now functional, a spokesperson for the hospital told Becker’s Oct. 8.
- “We are making significant progress, but we can’t fully anticipate the required timeframes to recover all systems, and some operations may be restored sooner than others,” the spokesperson told Becker’s.
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