St. Joseph Healthcare in Bangor and St. Mary’s Well being System in Lewiston are a part of Covenant Well being and notices of non permanent system issues are proven on their web sites.
Maine, USA – A cyber incident that impacts a number of hospitals in Maine is now underneath investigation.
Covenant Well being shared with the Maine Information Heart that realized the connectivity issues that have an effect on the group on Monday. The medical care system stated that entry to all information methods of their hospitals, clinics and provider practices instantly suspended.
Covenant has the St. Joseph hospital in Bangor, the Well being System of St. Mary in Lewiston and St. Andre Well being Care in Biddeford, in addition to different services in Lewiston and Bangor.
The group stated the issues have been the results of a “cyber incident initiated by an exterior group.”
Covenant is investigating the incident with the help of the principle specialists in cybersecurity and is coping with the scenario with the very best precedence.
Sufferers are inspired to keep up all appointments, since Covenant works to proceed offering well being providers as regular.
From 6:30 pm on Wednesday, web sites for St. Joseph Healthcare and St. Mary’s’s well being system continued to point out notices of non permanent issues of the system that point out that some providers will not be obtainable intermittently as a consequence of issues with phone and web entry.
Information Heart Maine has contacted extra data on affected person information. The hospital system didn’t disseminate extra particulars.
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