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Restoring Access: Ascension Seton's Journey after Ransomware Attack #HIPAA #EMR #EHR
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aside that things are returning to
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normal at the Austin area's largest
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hospital system local doctors and nurses
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in Ascension seatan can now access
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electronic health records after a
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ransomware attack took many systems
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offline for weeks but still as kxa and
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Sarah alare reports there is still a lot
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of work to be
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done progress for some Ascension seatan
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hospitals it's really great coming into
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work uh yesterday and being able to get
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into the computer system and see my
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patients previous medical history this
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woman who asked us to conceal her
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identity Works in an Ascension emergency
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department in Central Texas after three
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stressful weeks Ascension seatan doctors
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and nurses in Austin can now access
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electronic health records again on May
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8th Ascension announced an investigation
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into cyber security concerns officials
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later called it a ransomware attack
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while Hospitals and Clinics stayed open
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everything had to be recorded on paper
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those are not things the nurse es should
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be having to deal with and we really
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needed support now staff has to put that
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info back into the computer system
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that's a very huge Endeavor uh that
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they're now working on and they're
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working around the clock to do that in
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an update Wednesday as sension said
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quote clinicians will be able to access
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patient records as they did prior to
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this incident while these are promising
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developments in our recovery efforts our
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investigation into this incident remains
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ongoing along with the remediation of
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additional systems as a Ascension gains
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control cyber threat director at qualis
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Ken Dunham says it needs to make sure it
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isn't vulnerable for another attack they
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do the backups and the recoveries and
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they prioritize the emergency systems
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because sometimes when they're down
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other Bad actors will come in and take
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advantage or other holes will happen
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planning for the future is also a
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question this woman is left with look
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and see how they handled this situation
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and what they can do in the future to
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ensure the safety of our patients and
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Ensure that the staff is able to perform
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their functions Sarah KX news and
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assension says it's working on restoring
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systems at all of its locations
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nationwide by June 14th investigations
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into the Cyber attack are on going
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