July 30, 2023 Personal information of some 26,000 patients at one of the country’s biggest hospital groups may have been copied by an attacker in June. Toronto’s University Health Network (UHN), a group that includes three downtown hospitals, more...
April 26, 2023 Computer and smartphone screen usage has been related to progressive eye diseases. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), by 2050, more than half of the world's population will be myopic, which means one in more...
February 16, 2023 The biggest impediment to improving the cybersecurity of Canadian hospitals is “lack of focus” of management and lack of money, says the head of the country’s .ca registry. Bryon Holland, chief executive officer (CEO) of more...
January 11, 2023 One of the country’s biggest hospital networks says the IT alert issued Monday wasn’t the result of a cyber attack. In a series of tweets Tuesday morning Toronto’s University Health Network said its IT systems more...
December 27, 2022 The impact of the ransomware attack that hit Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children may last for weeks. In an online statement today the hospital said it anticipates that it will be a matter of weeks more...
December 21, 2022 Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children is still dealing with a cybersecurity incident so serious it declared a ‘Code Grey’ — meaning an IT system failure. On Monday, the hospital said the incident appears to have more...
August 24, 2022 The U.S. healthcare provider Novant Health has confirmed a data breach in which information from 1,362,296 people leaked. The incident was caused by a misconfigured Meta pixel on the Novant Health website and the 'MyChart' portal, more...
June 15, 2022 Kaiser Permanente, the biggest nonprofit health plan provider in America, recently announced a data breach that exposed highly sensitive health information of close to 70,000 patients. In a June 3 notice sent to patients, Kaiser more...
May 31, 2022 Researchers from Swinburne University of Technology have invented a robotic prototype aimed at helping medical staff automate blood donation processing. The university researchers, led by Dr Shanti Krishnan, deputy director of the Swinburne Factory of more...
