Almost a quarter of surveyed physicians say they’ve been personally attacked on social media or by other online means. That’s men and women alike, and in about equal ratios.

A trend has emerged of evidently softhearted ransomware gangs swearing off hospitals during the COVID crisis.

If everything goes according to its authors’ vision, healthcare consumers will finally be using their smartphones to easily access all their medical information.

More than a week after protectively disconnecting all online systems in the U.S. following a Sept. 27 cyberattack, a multistate, two-nation health system is coming back online.

As recently as eight months ago, cardiologists sitting down to work with medical images at Novant Health had plenty of choices on where and how to go about that part of their jobs.

Five-hospital Inova Health System based in Falls Church, Virginia, was among the clients of Blackbaud, a fundraising service supplier, affected by a ransomware attack against Blackbaud in May.

The emerging academic discipline of social data science, which leverages Big Data to integrate social science with computer science, has a new base of operations in the Mid-Atlantic region.  

Health and Human Services will award up to five grants as part of the program, with a Sept. 1 application deadline.