Universal Health Services, one of the largest hospital and healthcare services providers in the US, confirmed today that the IT network that supports its facilities is offline in the wake of what it called “an IT security issue.”
“We implement extensive IT security protocols and are working diligently with our IT security partners to restore IT operations as quickly as possible. In the meantime, our facilities are using their established back-up processes including offline documentation methods. Patient care continues to be delivered safely and effectively,” a UHS spokesperson said in a statement provided to Dark Reading. “No patient or employee data appears to have been accessed, copied or misused.”
The company’s email system appeared to still be down today,…