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Health industry struggles to recover from cyberattack on a unit of UnitedHealth

7:16am March 09, 2024

Doctors are worried that the attack on Change Healthcare, part of UnitedHeathcare's Optum division, will mean they can't get paid properly for months.

Matt Ashley, a senior technologist at Johnson Memorial Health in Franklin, Indiana, is part of a small IT team that spent months helping the hospital recover after a crippling cyberattack in 2021.

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Cyberattacks on health care are increasing. Inside one hospital's fight to recover

5:00am May 08, 2023

by Farah Yousry

U.S. hospitals have seen a record number of cyberattacks over the past few years. Getting hacked can cost a hospital millions of dollars and expose patient data, and even jeopardize patient care.

Already, Health Canada has posted safety and efficacy data online for four newly approved drugs; it plans to release reports for another 13 drugs and three medical devices approved or rejected since March.

Canada's Decision To Make Public More Clinical Trial Data Puts Pressure On FDA

2:18pm October 11, 2019

by Barbara Mantel

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration treats most data it gets on the development of new drugs and medical devices as confidential to companies. Critics say making the data public would help patients.

Erin Moore is collecting data to help her son's doctors make decisions about his cystic fibrosis care.

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How Patients' Reports On Their Health Can Help Doctors Do A Better Job

5:14pm April 05, 2016

by Michelle Andrews

Doctors and other health providers are slowly adding patients' self-reports to the tests and exams used to make decisions about care.

States can't compel self-insured employers to provide claims data for analytical purposes, the Supreme Court held.

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Supreme Court Strikes At States' Efforts On Health Care Transparency

8:49am March 02, 2016

by Charles Ornstein

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that states can't require many large employers to submit health care claims to a massive database. The decision means Medicare data will remain the go-to source for now.