Anubis claims 2 TB of patient data from Signature Healthcare's Brockton Hospital. Ambulances were diverted, chemo was canceled, and staff will be working off paper for two more weeks.
Two months into pricing a small Enterprise AI plan with a HIPAA BAA, one vendor has answered cleanly, one has answered with meetings, and one hasn't answered at all.
ChipSoft — the Dutch EHR vendor whose HiX platform runs patient records at roughly 80% of Netherlands hospitals — was hit by ransomware on April 7. Eleven hospitals disconnected, and the bigger story is the concentration risk that made this inevitable.
The Studio Display XDR's Medical Imaging Calibrator cleared the FDA on April 1. That resolves the biggest question from our March assessment — but the compliance infrastructure gaps that matter to radiology departments are still wide open.
HIPAA protects less than most people assume. Outside its reach, data brokers sell mental health records for pennies, pharmacies hand prescriptions to police without warrants, and one company's erroneous report can cost you a life insurance policy.
The head of America's largest public hospital system wants New York to change its regulations so AI can read mammograms without a radiologist. Radiologists are pushing back hard.
Qatar produces a third of the world's helium. The Ras Laffan complex is offline, possibly for years. Without helium, chipmakers can't fabricate AI processors — and hospitals can't keep MRI machines cold.
CMS finalized a rule to eliminate faxing for claims attachments, but the workflows that keep radiology groups sending tens of thousands of faxes a month are untouched.
Meta's AI glasses are impressive consumer devices. They're also architecturally incompatible with any environment where patient data is accessible.
An Iran-backed hacking group called Handala claims it wiped over 200,000 systems at medical device maker Stryker, idling 56,000 employees across 79 countries in what analysts are calling a significant cyber escalation.