‘We can’t contact our doctors’: Ascension health care workers struggle after cyberattack [Video]

Ascension health care systems announced Thursday it was the victim of a “cyber security event” Wednesday, causing a system outage impacting facilities across the country.It’s impacting locations in Wisconsin as well, like Saint Francis and Saint Mary’s hospitals. The cyberattack caused the company’s electronic health record to go offline, health care workers told WISN 12 News Thursday. They said it’s had a “devastating” impact on hospital operations. “We’re back to the documentation methods that we moved away from 20 years ago,” said Gavin Rice, who works in imaging at Saint Francis, and is also a member of the Wisconsin Federation of Nurses and Health Professionals.Rice said health care providers at St. Francis Hospital can’t access patients’ medical history.”We had no idea who those patients were or when they were coming in or what their orders were for, because we had no access to any of that information,” Rice said. Surgical …