Emergency services are back up and running, but many patients will need to reschedule tests and treatments while systems at Ascension remain partially offline.

The Department of Justice said Thomas Romando, MD, illegally prescribed over 137,000 pills to nine patients over a five-year period.

Surgeons at the health system were accused of performing unnecessary procedures and receiving bonuses as kickbacks. UPMC does not admit wrongdoing.

A third-party security firm has been brought in to assess what systems were accessed and what data, if any, was taken.

Four of five hospital leaders trust the accuracy of their institution’s data. Yet almost half of useable data gets underutilized if not completely untapped for guiding business and clinical decisions.

Medicare’s Hospital Insurance (HI) Trust Fund has the wherewithal to pay the full bill for beneficiaries’ stays in hospitals, hospice sites and skilled nursing facilities for the next 12 years. But what then? 

Heather Pressdee, 41, pleaded guilty to the charges, which included three counts of first-degree murder and 19 counts of attempt to commit murder.

The health system employs 40,000 people and cares for more than 12 million patients in eight states.