“I can get your meds once we transfer Bitcoin to Guam!”
That's ransomware with a name tag on. When attackers encrypt your systems, you either restore from backups they couldn't touch — or you negotiate. Only one of those is a plan.
Facilities that survive ransomware all tell the same story: the backups were offline, tested, and recent. Everything else is a negotiation with criminals over med-cart uptime.
How you restore instead of paying
EDR on every machine, watching for encryption behavior
Nightly backups with offline, unreachable copies
Test restores that prove your worst day is recoverable
Patching on schedule — the door ransomware usually walks through
Staff phishing training, because it starts with one click