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Greater Baltimore Medical Center restoring electronic medical records after ransomware incident

Posted on January 7, 2021 by Dissent

Hallie Miller reports:

One month after a crippling ransomware incident, Greater Baltimore Medical Center is beginning to restore the Towson hospital’s electronic medical records, officials said this week.

GBMC previously disclosed little about the Dec. 6 cyberattack, which disrupted the health care system’s communication and data-keeping infrastructure and forced it to take systems offline and reschedule some procedures. The incident also impacted Gilchrist Hospice Care.

Read more on Baltimore Sun.


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