When a cyberattack left Romanian hospitals 'out,' doctors went back to a classic: pen and paper

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A ransomware attack disrupted Romania’s hospital software platform Hipocrate and forced more than 100 hospitals to disconnect from the network. The outage affected patient registration, test ordering, results access, medication management, and supply coordination. Staff fell back to paper, offline spreadsheets, and manual entry until backups restored essential operations. Most hospitals returned to near-normal service in about five days, but some data was lost and had to be re-entered. The case highlights how critical backup and recovery planning is for healthcare software environments.

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