How a physician-owned practice recovered from a ransomware strike

About half of ransomware attacks have disrupted healthcare delivery among the largest hospitals and healthcare systems, according to a JAMA study published earlier this year. 

But at smaller and medium-sized providers, often with tighter security budgets and fewer recovery resources, such attacks can be much more than just disruptive – upending care processes for days or even weeks.

Two years ago Virginia’s largest provider of orthopedic medicine and therapy, OrthoVirginia, was hit with a Ryuk ransomware attack that disabled access …