The cyber attack on Ascension persists, causing delays in patient care
In more than a dozen states, doctors and nurses have resorted to paper, handwritten treatment orders to track patients' illnesses and monitor them, unable to access the detailed medical histories that have long been available only through computerized records.Patients have waited long periods in emergency rooms and their treatments have been delayed as lab results and readings from machines like MRIs are ferried through makeshift efforts lacking the speed of electronic uploads.For more than two weeks, thousands of medical staff have switched to manual methods after a cyber attack on Ascension, one of the nation's largest health systems with about 140 hospitals in 19 states and the District of Columbia.The large-scale attack on May 8 was eerily reminiscent of the hack of Change Heal...