INDIANAPOLIS — Companywide email and online medical record keeping are all a part of the self-imposed network shutdown at Eskenazi Health.
Eskenazi Spokesperson Tom Surber said they decided to shut down their network after detecting an attempted ransomware attack Wednesday morning.
Since then, any ambulances that would have headed toward the Eskenazi emergency room are now being diverted to other hospitals.
The good news is, Surber said none of the inpatients or patients coming for appointments have been affected by the attack.
Mitchell Parker, the Executive Director and Chief Information Security Director at IU Health, said they’ve seen a significant uptick in hospital cyber-attacks since the pandemic began.
Parker said hospitals have become prime targets because they need to care for their patients.
“A lot of hospitals these days are reliant on the internet for looking up information on patients,” Parker said.
Surber said, at the moment, they don’t believe any patient or employee data was compromised.
But Parker said these attacks can affect far more than private records. He said it also affects the way the hospital operates. In…
