About 30 companies have emerged in recent years in Los Angeles and Orange counties that are directly involved in either analyzing or enhancing electronic medical records.
For the past few decades, technology has been gradually revolutionizing health care for patients. It may be having less-positive effects for physicians, some of whom eye it as a threat to doctoring. As the world simultaneously looks to technology to help us navigate the pandemic and the medical community to get us out of it, the need for both to work together and amplify grows clearer with each day.
The news: Seattle entrepreneurs Sage Khanuja, 17, and Nikolas Ioannou, 18, have sold their telemedicine startup Spira to Galileo, a New York-based healthcare company.
In a statement on Wednesday, Scripps Health said the cyberattack that crippled its systems on Saturday, and has left the system offline since, involved malware in the hospital system's network. The impact of the cyberattack was reported on Saturday, forcing Scripps to take a "significant portion of our network offline as a proactive security measure," according to the statement.
Scripps Health had its technology servers hacked on May 1 in what has been deemed a ransomware attack by state officials. Although the incident has disrupted access to patient information, affected the ability of healthcare workers to do their jobs and led to a lack of communication with patients, Scripps Health has provided few details.
Brent Shafer led Cerner Corp. through a period of change — in executives and direction — after the departure of co-founders Neal Patterson and Cliff Illig.