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 consumer accounts to company servers and Web and medical applications.
“The investigation and restoration of entry to digital medical information and different medical techniques is ongoing. Ardent continues to be figuring out the complete influence of this occasion and it’s too quickly to understand how lengthy this can take or what information could also be concerned on this incident,” the corporate mentioned, in an announcement.
Updates could be discovered on the Ardent Well being web site.
