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A major ransomware attack has struck Ascension, a large nonprofit health system operating 140 hospitals across 19 U.S. states, severely disrupting operations since May 8, 2025.

Last Friday, Case Medical successfully completed an external audit that re-certified its ISMS system while moving to the most recent version (2022) of the ISO 27001 standard. This comes after months of preparation and expansion of the system to cover all company servers, the entire internal network, and most office computers.

At Case Medical, we always knew that patient information should be treated with the upmost confidentiality, adhering to HIPAA guidelines. When we developed CaseTrak360, one of our highest priorities was finding a way to track an instrument set or medical device to a patient without having their name or any personal information attached.

Case Medical has been in the reprocessing industry for nearly 33 years. During that time, we advanced from wrapped trays and tribal knowledge to new technology using digital software.

The Digital Revolution, also known as the Third Industrial Revolution, refers to the advancement of technology from analog electronics and mechanical devices to the digital technology available today.

The Joint Commission has started citing facilities for using instruments that have been laser etched. The issue is that the laser etching process happens after the instrument is passivated, which creates a hole in the passivated layer.

On July 18th 2024, CrowdStrike, a cybersecurity company, released a software update that wasn’t fully vetted and contained errors. Crowdstrike’s primary business is anti-virus and intrusion detection software that needs to be installed at the kernel level on the machine’s it protects.

You may have seen bar codes popping up in all sorts of medical devices and supplies in the last several years, including 2D barcodes on the SteriTite® Universal Sealed Container System.

Case Medical has been in the reprocessing industry for nearly 32 years. During that time, we and you advanced from wrapped trays and tribal knowledge to new technology using digital software.

This week, it was reported that cyber-attacks were targeting water and wastewater systems throughout the US. The U.S. EPA has set up a task force to assist at risk facilities, as many do not even have basic cyber security protections.