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by FLUX-YOU 3779 days ago
Probably locked down the physical machines at the hospital.

>Most hospitals use proprietary electronic medical record systems. These are layered constructs of different networks requiring different passwords and VPNs for their different functions.

That's idealistic. Usually they're giant pieces of shit.

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So really the data is unaffected. Just the OS on the client machines is borked and throwing up a scare screen. If that is the case, they can 'just' reimage the machines from backups. I agree, the EMRs are repurposed shit , but honed to an incredibly complex and fine edge.