New York City-based One Brooklyn Health's hospitals are still relying on paper charting after a November cybersecurity incident caused three of its hospitals to shut down its EHR and IT systems, CNN reported Dec. 20.
The cybersecurity incident caused Interfaith Medical Center, Brookdale Hospital Medical Center and Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center to shut down their clinical applications, including those used for imaging and other critical services.
As of Dec. 20, One Brooklyn said 80 percent of those applications have been restored, yet staff are still working with paper charting as the EHR system has yet to fully recover from the incident.
"No patients were adversely affected," LaRay Brown, CEO of One Brooklyn, told CNN, adding that the hospitals remain open to patients.
"We continue to provide care for our patients using downtime procedures for which our clinicians and administrators have been trained."
Little information has been released regarding the IT incident, and it is unknown if any patient information was compromised due to the event.