…unless the hospital has no cyber insurance, in which case the board and CEO are the ones with insomnia.
Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare, a 772-bed hospital with specialty care centers, has shut down its IT system and is diverting emergency patients to other hospitals. The apparent cause: a ransomware attack.
“‘We continue to divert some EMS patients. We are only accepting Level 1 traumas from Leon County and the immediate surrounding counties and patients experiencing stroke and myocardial infarction (heart attack),’ the hospital system said in an update posted Saturday.”
Non-emergency and elective operations scheduled for tomorrow have been postponed.
Meantime, a Maryland hospital has also been hit.