(Bloomberg) -- Many doctors still can’t use a transcriptionservice made by Nuance Communications Inc. three weeks after thecompany was hit by a powerful, debilitating computer attack.
Hospital systems including Beth Israel Deaconess in Boston andthe University of Pittsburgh Medical Center said eScription, aNuance staple product that allows physicians to dictate notes froma telephone, still isn’t functioning. The outage obliterateddoctors’ instructions to patients, forcing some to revert to penand paper.
The computer virus, called Petya, has sent ripples throughhealth care, among the last industries to make the switch todigital record keeping and one of the most frequently targeted byhackers, said Michael Ebert, a partner with KPMG who advises healthand life-science companies on cybersecurity.
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