SAN DIEGO – The more than four-week disruption of services at Scripps Health was the result of a ransomware attack, the health system's CEO said in a letter Monday.
"The American healthcare market is facing an inevitable revolution that will be based on innovative and secure technology and on changes in corporate culture due to Covid-19," writes Oron Afek, co-founder and CEO of Vim.
Almost 2.5 million people signed up to Dr. B with the promise of getting leftover vaccines. Months later, the site won't disclose how many doses it helped deliver—or what it plans to do with user data.
An FDA pathway that’s greased the gears for COVID-19 vaccines and drugs has paved the way for something else: a new take on electroencephalography (EEG), the established brain-monitoring technique in which metallic electrodes are placed on the scalp to measure the brain’s electrical activity.
Ireland's Health Service Executive has ruled out giving in to hackers' demands as the country's healthcare and social services continue to deal with the disruption caused by a significant ransomware attack that occurred a few days ago.
As the world goes through digitalization at a rapid pace, fears of the dehumanizing aspect of technology are pervasive—and these fears are no exception in the healthcare industry. Certainly, no one wants robots directing their healthcare needs. With the pandemic highlighting just how vital empathy and humanity truly is, people’s reservations around adopting new, technology-driven ways of treating patients have been reinforced.