Cyberattack Hobbles Major Hospital Chain, Staff Resorting to Paper Records

Cyberattack Hobbles Major Hospital Chain, Staff Resorting to Paper Records
Doctors and nurses confer in the Intensive Care Unit of MedStar St. Mary's Hospital in Leonardtown, Maryland, April 8, 2020. Win McNamee/Getty Images
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WASHINGTON—Computer systems across a major hospital chain operating in the United States and Britain were down Monday due to what the company termed an unspecified technology “security issue.”

Universal Health Services Inc., which operates more than 400 hospitals and other clinical care facilities, said in a short statement posted to its website Monday that its network was offline and doctors and nurses were resorting to “back-up processes” including paper records.