Griffin Hospital is the indirect victim of a ransomware attack, with its website going offline this week but patient information not exposed, officials said. The attack is being directed against Managed.com, which administers the Derby hospital’s website. In ransomware attacks, hackers encrypt data and demand payment in an untraceable cryptocurrency as a condition to restoring access. The breaches often occur in “phishing” emails sent to an individual employee to dupe them into clicking on a link that installs the ransomware software and takes a system hostage.
Some patients can get care in the comfort of their home, but traditional Medicare and most private health plans don’t cover it—though some insurers are getting interested
As the United States braces for a bleak winter, hospital systems across the country are ramping up their efforts to develop AI systems to predict how likely their Covid-19 patients are to fall severely ill or even die. Yet most of the efforts are being developed in silos and trained on limited datasets, raising crucial questions about their reliability.