Providence Hospital electronic records restored after ransomware attack

Electronic versions of patient records at Providence Hospital were restored Thursday, nearly a month after the Mobile hospital was impacted by a ransomware attack on its former owner.

Although Ascension Health sold Providence to the University of South Alabama last year, the hospital “temporarily remains” on some of Ascension’s IT systems, according to USA Health. Providence’s new owners did not say when the hospital would no longer be on Ascension’s systems.