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.
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.