Michigan Medicine announced Thursday that it has been hit for the second time in four months by a cyberattack that targeted employee email accounts and compromised protected health information, such as the names, medical record numbers and diagnostic and/or treatment information of nearly 58,000 people. "A Michigan Medicine employee accepted an unsolicited multifactor authentication prompt, which allowed the cyberattacker to access the employee's email account and its contents," the Ann Abor-based health system said in a statement. Michigan Medicine is the academic medical center of the University of Michigan and includes the U-M Medical School and University of Michigan Health. "The event occurred on July 30, 2024. The account was disabled as soon as possible so no further access could take place."
The Health Infrastructure Security and Accountability Act — led by Sens. Ron Wyden, D-Ore. And Mark Warner, D-Va. — amends the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act requirements and directs HHS to build new “mandatory minimum cybersecurity standards for health care providers, health plans, clearinghouses and business associates” with a special focus on healthcare operations important to national security.
The founder and CEO of Zocdoc says healthcare needs less outside-in disruption and more inside-out pragmatism.
America spent $4.8 trillion on healthcare In 2023. If that were a nation’s GDP, it would be the third largest on Earth. No wonder everyone—and so many heathtech startups—aims to fix it.
But since my company Zocdoc launched in 2007, I have watched waves of self-appointed “disruptors” enter the healthcare arena like lions only to retreat like lambs. In fact, 90% of healthtech startups have gone bust.
It’s not just the upstarts. Healthcare has also burned Amazon, Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Walmart. What chance does disruption have in the healthtech sector that defeats David and disgraces Goliath?
But America’s healthcare system needs disruption as costs rise and outcomes decline. Seventy-three percent of American adults say the system is failing them in some way. Without intervention, this will break the bank, our health, or both.
Given the stakes, we must remain bullish on technology’s ability to improve healthcare cost, quality, and access. But instead of blindly adopting “disruptor” playbooks that worked in other consumer sectors, healthtech entrants must study the industry’s past failures. While each has its nuances, there are instructive commonalities and landmines. I have distilled them down to these seven.
Every day, patients send hundreds of thousands of messages to their doctors through MyChart. But increasingly, the responses to those messages are not written by the doctor — at least, not entirely. About 15,000 doctors and assistants at more than 150 health systems are using a new artificial intelligence feature in MyChart to draft replies to such messages. Many patients receiving those replies have no idea that they were written with the help of artificial intelligence. In interviews, officials at several health systems using MyChart's tool acknowledged that they do not disclose that the messages contain A.I.-generated content. The trend troubles some experts who worry that doctors may not be vigilant enough to catch potentially dangerous errors in medically significant messages drafted by A.I.
Ross Segan was chosen to lead the office, which handles premarket authorizations and recalls, in the agency’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health.