Ardent Well being Providers, headquartered in Nashville, Tenn., and working in six completely different states, fell sufferer to a ransomware assault in late November that has taken its total community offline.
Some 30 hospitals have been affected by this ransomware assault. Whereas the assault did not disrupt affected person care in Ardent hospitals, these in want of emergency medical consideration are being redirected to different hospitals, as are some sufferers scheduled for non-emergent, elective procedures.
Ardent reported the assault to legislation enforcement, and has launched an investigation alongside third-party specialists. Within the meantime, the healthcare chain suspended person accounts to company servers and Web and medical packages.
“The investigation and restoration of entry to digital medical data and different medical methods is ongoing. Ardent continues to be figuring out the complete affect of this occasion and it’s too quickly to know the way lengthy this may take or what knowledge could also be concerned on this incident,” the corporate stated, in a press release.
Updates may be discovered on the Ardent Well being web site.
