In more than a dozen states, doctors and nurses have resorted to paper and handwritten treatment orders to chart patient illnesses and track them, unable to access the detailed medical histories that have long been available only through computerized records.
The large-scale attack on May 8 was eerily reminiscent of the hack of Change Healthcare, a unit of UnitedHealth Group that manages the nation's largest health care payment system. The assault shut down Change's digital billing and payment routes, leaving hospitals, doctors and pharmacists without ways to communicate with health insurers for weeks.
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