The Osaka Acute and General Medical Center, which had temporarily suspended most medical services due to a cyberattack, announced that it has completed the restoration of systems such as electronic medical records and will resume all medical services as usual from the 11th. .
In October last year, the Osaka Acute and General Medical Center in Sumiyoshi Ward, Osaka, suffered a cyberattack by a ransomware-type virus called "ransomware", which caused problems in systems such as electronic medical records, and temporarily, except for emergencies. We have stopped most of the medical treatment, such as the operation of the hospital and the acceptance of new outpatients.
The hospital did not respond to the ransom request and proceeded with the recovery work using the backed up data, etc., and the recovery of the more than 2000 electronic medical record terminals and the system that handles examination data in the entire hospital took 10 days. It means that everything is completed by
The hospital has gradually resumed accepting new outpatients, and announced that all medical care will be conducted as usual from the 11th.
Takeshi Shimazu, the center's president, said, "I deeply apologize for the situation in which we had to temporarily suspend outpatient care and scheduled surgery. We will do our utmost to provide better quality medical care while taking all possible measures for cyber security in the future. I am commenting.
At the end of this month, the hospital will set up an investigative committee including external experts to consider measures to prevent recurrence.