this post was submitted on 01 Oct 2024
157 points (99.4% liked)

Technology

59875 readers
2450 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
L3s@lemmy.world
L3s@fry.gs
L4s@fry.gs
L4s@lemmy.world
enu@lemmy.world
157
Ransomware forces Texas hospital to turn away ambulances (www.theregister.com)
submitted 2 months ago by vegeta@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
10 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[โ€“] PostaL@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Why would a hospital have to turn away ambulances if their computers don't work? They have phones and radio...

[โ€“] TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago

The workforce is too adapted to suddenly go back to doing everything on paper without making serious mistakes.

That plus not being able to access data that may only be available digitally for the same reason

load more comments (2 replies)