Healthcare Ransomware EHR Downtime: $5B, Four Events
Four healthcare cyber events. One operating pattern. The case for continuity during compromise. The Numbers $3.09B Change Healthcare, full-year 2024 impact. $1.8B Ascension Health, FY24 operating loss. $160M CommonSpirit Health, confirmed cost. $67M Universal Health Services, pretax loss. The category that didn’t exist when the attacks landed. The four healthcare ransomware and cyberattack events covered […]
Three EHRs went dark. 84 combined days on paper.
Three U.S. health systems lost the electronic record to ransomware and ran on pen and paper for weeks. Different EHRs, different attackers, the same failure mode. Prevention did not keep care running. A continuity layer would have. UMMC Univ. of Mississippi Medical Center Feb 19, 2026 Medusa Ransomware Ascension Health 140 hospitals, 19 statesMay 8, […]
Paper Is Not a Continuity Plan
When an EHR goes dark, hospitals don’t just go back in time. They go back to a workflow they have not fully run since the 1990s. I sell the layer that prevents the regression. Last week, the American Hospital Association made the case for me. BY RUSS COBB | Chief Revenue Officer, Shelter Zoom | […]