An uptick in ransomware complaints flooded the FBI in the final months of 2020, including a spate of attacks on hospitals, The Washington Times has learned. In each of the last four months of 2020, the FBI received more than 200 complaints about ransomware, according to data compiled by the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center that was shared with The Times. Victims’ cash losses more than tripled in 2020 year over year to $29.1 million, according to data collected by the FBI.
Nebraska Medicine and the University of Nebraska Medical Center have begun notifying patients and employees whose personal information may have been compromised in a data security breach last fall.
Providence and about a dozen other major health-care systems across the country said Thursday they will join in a venture “unprecedented” in scope to share anonymized patient data in hopes of supporting research and better understanding medical conditions and treatments.
Why has it been so hard to get a COVID-19 vaccination? One reason may be the software that almost all medical records in the U.S. are built on. It makes up the systems nurses and doctors type patients' vital signs and prescriptions into — whether they're getting a routine physical or going to the emergency room with a broken arm.
Andrew Toy, president of Clover Health, says all the right things about the health insurer specializing in Medicare Advantage that is based in Jersey City — and does the great majority of is business in the state — but has dreams of being a national player.