San Diego EDs Deluged With Patients After Cyberattack

A 2021 ransomware attack on a massive Southern California health system sent a sudden flood of critical patients to two large academic emergency departments (EDs), leading to overcrowding that providers struggled to keep pace with, a researcher reported.

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