UNM Health Reopens After Cyber Incident Disrupts Care

UNM Health canceled appointments and surgeries and diverted ambulances on October 26 after a cybersecurity incident disrupted operations across its health system. The university said its hospitals reopened later that day and scheduled appointments and procedures were set to resume October 27. The disruption began at about 2:30 p.m. Mountain Daylight Time, according to UNM Health updates. The system said it diverted ambulances to other hospitals in Albuquerque and Santa Fe for about two hours. Patients were told not to go to UNM Health facilities that day, and nonemergency care was to be delayed. UNM said it would work with patients to reschedule appointments and procedures that were canceled. UNM Health said it began restoring operations and bringing systems back online in phases as it was safe to do so. The university also canceled classes on October 27 for its Health Sciences campus, including courses in medicine, nursing, pharmacy and population health. Classes at UNM’s Central and branch campuses were not affected. Nonessential Health Sciences employees were asked to stay home. The university said the incident was under active law-enforcement investigation and that it had...