Potential cybersecurity incident leaves hospitals without ambulances WKRC

p Now pp43pp Thu pp49pp Fri pp52ppby CNN NewsourceppppTEXAS WKRCCNN Newsource A cybersecurity incident in East Texas left hospitals floundering without ambulance accessppUT Health East Texas which operates 10 hospitals and more than 90 clinics âbecame aware of a network outageâ on ThursdayppThe health care system took steps to lock down its network initially predicting it would be back online within 24 to 36 hoursppHowever a spokesperson said Friday that hospital emergency rooms are still unable to receive ambulances without computersppThe spokesperson says theyve been operating using âestablished downtime procedures but have had to turn ambulances awayppUT Health is conducting an internal investigation into the outage which it referred to as âa potential security incidentppIn just the past nine months cyberattacks have left hospitals in Connecticut Florida Pennsylvania and Idaho without ambulancesp