MedStar official on cyberattack: 'We chose by...

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When MedStar Health officials discovered on a Sunday night in March that hackers had infiltrated computer systems at one of three offsite locations — the problem worsening despite efforts to stop it — the responsibility fell to a midlevel director to make a quick call. “He made the brave but per-the-protocol decision to shut every aspect of MedStar Health’s electronic medical record systems off,” said Dr. Craig DeAtley, the system’s director of emergency preparedness. “So we found ourselves…