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font-style:normal;background:#b5b5b5;color:#a70303;padding: 2px 7px;} span.disclaimer-button:hover {background:#999999; color:#ffffff; }The UK healthcare sector is in a transformative era, driven by advancements in artificial intelligence (AI). AI has the potential to revolutionise healthcare…
Some junior doctors in London have been permitted to break the strike to assist at sites affected by the cyber attack on pathology system provider Synnovis, the British Medical Association (BMA) has confirmed. Services in…
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NHS England is letting a contract worth £4.3 million to “enhance cyber risk visibility, assurance and resilience” throughout the NHS supply chain.An invitation to tender, published by NHSE on 20 June 2024, said the…
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Mark Edwards, chief information security officer at Digital Health and Care Wales (DHCW) has predicted that cyber attacks on critical national infrastructure are likely to increase due to global conflict.Speaking at the NHS Confed…
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Technology innovation shows no sign of slowing as the healthcare industry continues on its quest to improve the quality, efficiency, and accessibility of care. The past few years have seen an array of new…
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More than 1,134 elective procedures and 2,194 outpatient appointments have been postponed at King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust since a cyber attack on 3 June…
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Cyber criminals have published patient data online which they claim was stolen as part of an attack on Synnovis, NHS England has confirmed. The ransomware attack by Russian cyber criminal group Qilin, which took place…
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US non-profit health system Ascension has confirmed that its electronic health record (EHR) system has been restored across all of its sites following a ransomware incident last month. The Catholic health system’s EHR and various…
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NHS Dumfries and Galloway has warned almost 150,000 patients to assume that at least some of their personal data is likely to have been stolen and published online following a major cyber attack earlier…
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More than 800 planned operations and 700 outpatient appointments were rearranged in the week following a cyber attack on pathology service provider Synnovis.The ransomware attack, which took place on 3 June 2024, disrupted pathology…
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