Nearly three in four healthcare organizations report care disruptions due to cyberattacks. That means in most hospitals, it’s not a question of if an attack will happen — it’s when.
A recent article in Healthcare Innovation Group revealed that 72% of providers have had care interrupted by ransomware or malware. Even more concerning, 96% have experienced data loss over the past two years. These aren’t isolated incidents, they’re system-wide symptoms of an industry too reliant on centralized, vulnerable EHR system hacks. When a hospital’s digital lifeline goes dark, patient care stops. Clinicians lose access to histories, allergies, medications,and imaging — everything they need to make safe, informed decisions. Recovery can take hours, days, or even weeks. During that time, patient care is delayed, trust erodes, and clinical outcomes suffer.
The Hidden Cost of Downtime
Cyberattacks aren’t just a tech problem. They’re a human one. Every hour spent restoring systems is an hour patients spend waiting for care. The average hospital ransomware attack now costs $8.6 million and disrupts services for nearly two weeks. Multiply that by thousands of providers, and the impact is staggering — financially, operationally, and emotionally. Healthcare has spent years reacting to this threat: installing firewalls, updating servers, running endless employee phishing drills. But the truth is, no defense is foolproof. Data stored in the cloud or on centralized servers remains a target. One misstep, one bad click, and the system can collapse. It’s time to rethink resiliency — not as recovery, but as continuity of care.
Always-On Access: The MedKaz Difference
Imagine if your patients’ medical records were never at risk of being locked away — no matter what happens to your network. Servers down? Internet not working? Never an issue. MedKaz is a secure, portable, patient-owned personal health record that’s always available, even when ransomware takes down practice or even hospital systems. Because MedKaz isn’t dependent on cloud servers or centralized data storage, it’s immune to the outages that cripple traditional EHR networks. Every MedKaz device holds a complete, up-to-date copy of the patient’s medical history — from every provider, every visit. That means continuity of care is guaranteed, whether the system is online or not. It’s a simple idea with profound implications: even during a cyber crisis, clinicians can still view patient histories, reconcile medications, and make safe, informed decisions. No delays. No data hostages. No chaos.
Prevention Through Empowerment
Resiliency isn’t about building stronger walls — it’s about designing systems that can’t be held hostage in the first place. MedKaz achieves that by decentralizing access, empowering patients as custodians of their own records, and creating redundancy by design. Save that $8.6 million dollars. That shift — from institutional control to patient partnership — transforms how healthcare responds to disruption. It turns an unpredictable risk into a manageable variable. In a world where downtime is inevitable, MedKaz keeps the lights on. And its an affordable, dependable solution that’s available now.
A Future Without “System Down”
If 2025 taught us anything, it’s that cybersecurity in healthcare isn’t just an IT priority — it’s a clinical imperative. When records go dark, so does patient safety. MedKaz offers a new path forward — one where medical data is portable, protected, and always accessible. Because true resilience isn’t about how fast you can bounce back — it’s about never breaking in the first place.
It’s time to stop reacting and start preventing. It’s time to rethink EHR resiliency — with MedKaz at the center of care continuity.
