Cyber-attack closes hospital emergency rooms in three US states

"Ardent Health, which oversees 30 hospitals in states across the US, including New Mexico,

Texas and Oklahoma, said it had been targeted by a cyberattack attack over the Thanksgiving holiday. The attack had shut down a significant number of its computerized services, the company said in a news release. “In an abundance of caution, our facilities are rescheduling some non-emergent, elective procedures and diverting some emergency room patients to other area hospitals until systems are back online,” Ardent Health’s release said. Each of the affected Ardent hospital chains – Hillcrest HealthCare in Oklahoma, Lovelace Health in New Mexico, and UT Health in Texas – said that some of their emergency rooms were transferring patients to other hospitals.
The hospital operator said the cyber-attack has affected computer programs that track patients’ healthcare records, among others." Guradian