Healthcare

ChatGPT Health wants your sensitive medical records so it can play doctor

It's for less consequential health-related matters, where being wrong won't kill customers

AI + ML08 Jan 2026 | 29

ChatGPT is playing doctor for a lot of US residents, and OpenAI smells money

One man's failing healthcare system is another man's opportunity

AI + ML05 Jan 2026 | 31

UK Covid-19 Inquiry finds early pandemic surveillance was weeks out of date

Lack of effective data flows and reduced scientific investment hampered response

Public Sector24 Nov 2025 | 77

Manchester hits snooze again on joining Palantir-run NHS data platform

Care board still waiting for evidence that it will be in the best interests of the population

Databases20 Nov 2025 | 38

Palantir plots NHS skills drive for its controversial data platform

Partnership with UK-based 'AI upskilling platform' aims to boost software's usage

Databases17 Nov 2025 | 18

NHS left with sick PCs as suppliers resist Windows 11 treatment

Hospitals told to upgrade, but some medical device makers haven't prescribed compatibility yet

OSes31 Oct 2025 | 76

Nearly a year after attack, US medical scanning biz gets clear image of stolen patient data

No fraud monitoring and no apology after miscreants make off with medical, financial data

Cyber-crime07 Oct 2025 | 5

Radiant Group won't touch kids' data now, but apparently hospitals are fair game

Ransomware crooks utterly fail to find moral compass

Cybersecurity Month06 Oct 2025 | 3

UK's digital hospital plan meets analog reality check

Experts ask: Where will staff come from, and what about gran's flip phone?

Public Sector01 Oct 2025 | 29

Cyborg dreams move closer to reality with low-power artificial neuron

UMass Amherst research promises better bioelectronic communication

Science30 Sep 2025 | 6

Healthcare lags in Windows 11 upgrades – and lives may depend on it

Interview Most orgs still on Windows 10, so maybe don't get ill after October 14

OSes30 Sep 2025 | 13

Cybercriminals pwn 850k+ Americans' healthcare data

Three US medical centers fess up to serious breaches

Cyber-crime18 Sep 2025 | 10

HHS warns US health care industry to share data with patients or else

After years of foot-dragging, penalties for blocking access finally kick in

Public Sector05 Sep 2025 | 3

Larry Ellison bankrolling £118M AI vaccine research at Oxford University

Oracle billionaire funds project to predict immunity and develop treatments for hard-to-prevent diseases

Science01 Sep 2025 | 28

Wastewater monitoring project could catch next pandemic early, says health agency

UK starts early warning system combing through stuff that folks flush away

Public Sector28 Aug 2025 | 29

Uncle Sam throws AI 'chili cook-off' to spice up healthcare fraud detection

No stew on the stove, but plenty of heat as devs compete to flag suspect Medicare data

Public Sector27 Aug 2025 | 4

Kidney dialysis giant DaVita tells 2.4M people they were snared in ransomware data theft nightmare

Health details, tax ID numbers, even images of checks were stolen, reportedly by the Interlock gang

Cyber-crime22 Aug 2025 | 15

Breathe easy: Apple Watch can read your oxygen levels again

iBiz shifts data to iPhone in patent workaround

Personal Tech14 Aug 2025 | 25

Doctors get dopey if they rely too much on AI, study suggests

A tool can become a crutch

AI + ML13 Aug 2025 | 19

I started losing my digital privacy in 1974, aged 11

Column An encounter with the healthcare system reveals sickening decisions about data

Legal13 Aug 2025 | 137

NHS disability equipment provider on brink of collapse a year after cyberattack

Government officials say they are monitoring the situation

Cyber-crime31 Jul 2025 | 16

Trump officials float plan for Americans to share their medical data more freely

Apple, Google, AI biggies, and for-profit insurance all eagerly rubbing their hands

Public Sector31 Jul 2025 | 29

'It looks sexy but it's wrong' – the problem with AI in biology and medicine

The case of the improbably well-endowed rat

AI + ML27 Jul 2025 | 60

Euro healthcare giant AMEOS Group shuts down IT systems after mystery attack

Good luck getting an appointment with your doctor

Cyber-crime24 Jul 2025 | 1

Samsung acquires Xealth to merge hospital records with data from wearables

Envisions info from your watch informing treatment. What could possibly go wrong?

Personal Tech09 Jul 2025 | 10

Kawasaki and Foxconn build robot nursing assistant to tackle hospital scutwork

If you come out of a coma in 2026, this is the machine you might see staring down at you

On-Prem04 Jul 2025 | 41

Crims are posing as insurance companies to steal health records and payment info

Taking advantage of the ridiculously complex US healthcare billing system

Cyber-crime27 Jun 2025 | 6

Second attack on McLaren Health Care in a year affects 743k people

Criminals targeted the hospital and physician network’s Detroit cancer clinic this time

Cyber-crime23 Jun 2025 | 1

Remorseless extortionists claim to have stolen thousands of files from Freedman HealthCare

UPDATED The group has previously threatened to SWAT cancer patients and leaked pre-op plastic surgery photos

Cyber-crime16 Jun 2025 |

Ransomware scum leak patient data after disrupting chemo treatments at Kettering

Literally adding insult to injury

Cyber-crime04 Jun 2025 | 11

US medical org pays $50M+ to settle case after crims raided data and threatened to swat cancer patients

Cash splashed on damages, infrastructure improvements, and fraud monitoring

Cyber-crime30 May 2025 | 2

One of Britain's largest health trusts says 'no ta' to Palantir-run data platform – for now

Care board defers decision to adopt national system

Databases23 May 2025 | 8

Greater Manchester says its NHS analytics stack is years ahead of Palantir wares

Care board draws red lines over use of UK government-backed Federated Data Platform

Databases21 May 2025 | 53

Boffins warn that AI paper mills are swamping science with garbage studies

Research flags rise in one-dimensional health research fueled by large language models

AI + ML13 May 2025 | 76

Healthcare group Ascension discloses second cyberattack on patients' data

This time criminals targeted partner’s third-party software

Cyber-crime01 May 2025 | 1

SSNs and more on 5.5M+ patients feared stolen from Yale Health

At least it wasn't Harvard

Cyber-crime24 Apr 2025 | 5

Blue Shield says it shared health info on up to 4.7M patients with Google Ads

Tech giants don't need smartphone mics to target adverts – your insurer just gives your data away, anyway

CSO23 Apr 2025 | 25

Pharmacist accused of using webcams to spy on women in intimate moments at work, home

Lawsuit claims sick cyber-voyeurism went undetected for years, using hundreds of PCs, due to lax infosec

Cyber-crime09 Apr 2025 | 23

For healthcare orgs, DR means making sure docs can save lives during ransomware infections

Organizational, technological resilience combined defeat the disease that is cybercrime

Disaster Recovery Week02 Apr 2025 | 6

Oracle Cloud security SNAFU latest: IT giant accused of pedantry as evidence scrubbed

1990s incident response in 2025

PaaS + IaaS31 Mar 2025 | 8

Cashless society could be why fewer kids are eating coins and sticking things up their noses

NHS boffins think there's a connection, but ‘snot all good news: Swallowing batteries is even more dangerous

Science31 Mar 2025 | 34

AI models hallucinate, and doctors are OK with that

Eggheads call for comprehensive rules to govern machine learning in medical settings

AI + ML13 Mar 2025 | 51

'Uber for nurses' exposes 86K+ medical records, PII in open S3 bucket for months

Exclusive Non-password-protected, unencrypted 108GB database … what could possibly go wrong

Security11 Mar 2025 | 14

Rhysida pwns two US healthcare orgs, extracts over 300K patients' data

Terabytes of sensitive info remain available for download

Cyber-crime10 Mar 2025 | 3

$16B health dept managed finances with single Excel spreadsheet. It hasn’t gone well

It's just one of 6,000 apps that New Zealand thinks might be best tamed with ERP

Software10 Mar 2025 | 83

Surprise! People don't want AI deciding who gets a kidney transplant and who dies or endures years of misery

Researchers find AI isn't ready to help with moral decision making

AI + ML08 Mar 2025 | 78

Up to $75M needed to fix up rural hospital cybersecurity as ransomware gangs keep scratching at the door

Attacks strike, facilities go bust, patients die. But it's preventable

Ransomware in Focus06 Mar 2025 | 8

Medusa ransomware gang demands $2M from UK private health services provider

Exclusive 2.3 TB held to ransom as biz formerly known as Virgin Care tells us it's probing IT 'security incident'

Cyber-crime20 Feb 2025 | 10

Healthcare outfit that served military personnel settles allegations it faked infosec compliance for $11M

If this makes you feel sick, knowing this happened before ransomware actors started targeting medical info may help

Security19 Feb 2025 | 8

Already three years late, NHS finance system replacement delayed again

Project to swap out Oracle E-Business Suite gets another red rating from projects watchdog

Applications11 Feb 2025 | 24

Veterans Affairs reboots Oracle health records project for $330M

Concerns around unfixed problems remain after system resulted in harm to some 150 patients

Databases06 Feb 2025 | 12

Medical monitoring machines spotted stealing patient data, users warned to pull the plug ASAP

Infosec in brief PLUS: MGM settles breach suits; AWS doesn't trust you with security defaults; A new .NET backdoor; and more

Security03 Feb 2025 | 9

Ransomware attack at New York blood services provider – donors turned away during shortage crisis

400 hospitals and med centers across 15 states rely on its products

Cyber-crime30 Jan 2025 | 13

Enzo Biochem settles lawsuit over 2023 ransomware attack for $7.5M

That's in addition to the $4.5M fine paid to three state AGs last year

Cyber-crime16 Jan 2025 | 1

Price-fixing-as-a-service: The claim against healthcare cost-cruncher MultiPlan

Interview Attorney Jennifer Scullion on allegations of algorithmic suppression of competition

Software14 Jan 2025 | 13

Drug addiction treatment service admits attackers stole sensitive patient data

Details of afflictions and care plastered online

Cyber-crime10 Jan 2025 | 8