Google is once again overhauling its ambitious health efforts. But this time around, some experts see its shakeup as less of a stumbling block than a potential path to progress. Less than three years after relaunching its ambitious health care division, Google Health, the tech giant is dismantling the organization and spreading its health efforts across the company.
A network of hospitals and clinics in Ohio and West Virginia was forced to cancel surgeries and divert patients with emergencies to other facilities after it was hit in a ransomware attack this week. Cybercriminals struck Memorial Health System, a nonprofit that runs three hospitals, outpatient service sites and clinics spread across southeastern Ohio and northwestern West Virginia, early Sunday morning.
Google Health VP David Feinberg will become the CEO and president of electronic health records company Cerner in October, taking over for current CEO Brent Shafer, Cerner announced on Thursday. Feinberg had previously led Google’s health care initiatives since 2018 in a role that was created when he was hired.
In late October 2020, the University of Vermont Health Network was hit by a ransomware attack. The system couldn’t access electronic health records for nearly a month. Every computer at UVM Medical Center was infected with malware. Hospitals in the network delayed chemotherapy and mammogram appointments, just as COVID-19 cases in the United States started to tick upward in what would become an enormous winter wave.
A flaw in software made by BlackBerry has left two hundred million cars, along with critical hospital and factory equipment, vulnerable to hackers — and the company opted to keep it secret for months.
As the delta variant drives new COVID-19 case numbers higher in our state, we are finding out more details on how the Oklahoma State Department of Health struggled last year to keep up with the first big coronavirus surge. Labs faxing in test results and some testing facilities completely failing to report new cases at all were reported problems. Today, the former State Epidemiologist explained to KFOR how bad things were at the OSDH last fall and what they are doing to prevent that from happening again.