CNN —A cyberattack has disrupted “clinical operations” at major health care nonprofit Ascension, forcing it to take steps to minimize any impact to patient care, an Ascension spokesperson told CNN on Wednesday.
Ascension recommended that its health care clients temporarily cut off network connections to Ascension as the incident is being addressed, according to the statement.
Ascension has “initiated procedures to ensure patient care delivery continues to be safe and as minimally impacted as possible,” the spokesperson said.
Health care providers across the US have suffered numerous ransomware attacks in recent years, some of which have disrupted patient care and cost health providers millions, if not billions, of dollars.
A February ransomware attack on a subsidiary of health care giant UnitedHealth Group caused billing disruptions at pharmacies across the US and threatened to put some health providers out of business.
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