Comment by uhs-employee

The hospital chain I work for was hit with ransomware last month. Door locks, time clocks, and photocopy machines still worked, but all computers were down. We use paper records, but it was frustrating and inconvenient. We're not allowed to pay due to laws. Corporate started slowly building us a brand new, but terrible, network 5 weeks after the old one went down. Definitely caused a little staff burnout, but not more than corporate's relentless attempts to extract additional profit from us at the expense of our patients and our wellbeing.