Ransomware can be nasty. Victims underestimate the volume of work required.
A month after cyberattack, UVM Medical Center restores access to electronic records
Kate Jickling reports:
The University of Medical Center’s electronic medical records system is up and running nearly a month after the hospital fell victim to a cyberattack.
Over the weekend, the hospital tech team restored Epic health records system, giving doctors and nurses full access to patient medical history, appointments, and medications, said Al Gobeille, a vice president of operations for the UVM Health Network on Monday.
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[From the article:
Operations won’t fully return to normal for weeks, but the reboot marks the most significant step toward restoring normalcy after the cyberattack disrupted patient care and delayed appointments. On Oct. 28, the hospital IT staff noticed abnormal activity, and shut down its online operations. The hack downed hospital phone and email networks, eliminated access to patient records and appointments, and halted access for the hospital to pay employees overtime.
A National Guard unit came in to help and the Medical Center’s IT team worked to restore nearly 5,000 computers. Nurses and doctors made a rocky transition to paper records.
Even now, many of the 500 applications that connect to Epic, such as the MyChart patient portal, and radiology and chemotherapy systems, are not yet live, said Gobeille. It will continue to be an “evolutionary process” over several weeks to get back to normal, he said.
How could you use it?
https://www.bespacific.com/the-artificial-intelligence-incident-database/
The Artificial Intelligence Incident Database
Via Mary Whisner:
Samir Ferdowski, This Database Is Finally Holding AI Accountable, Vice (Nov. 23, 2020). The Artificial Intelligence Incident Database (AIID) is a crowdsourced platform with intentions to wrangle in the Wild West of AI. “Fool me once, shame on me; fool me twice shame on you,” [Isn’t that backward? Bob] comes to mind, as the platform is being used to document and compile AI failures so they won’t happen again.
Sean McGregor, When AI Systems Fail: Introducing the AI Incident Database, Partnership on AI (Nov. 18, 2020)
The database: https://incidentdatabase.ai/discover/index.html?s=
Perspective. AI (and space?) must be expensive.
U.K. Announces Biggest Defense Spending Increase Since the Cold War
… The increased budget would make Britain the largest defense spender in Europe and second only to the United States among NATO members, Johnson’s government said. The funds will be used to establish a new artificial intelligence center, to create a Royal Air Force Space Command, and to “restore Britain’s position as the foremost naval power in Europe.”
Something for the teacher/student toolkit.
https://www.makeuseof.com/highlighter-apps-to-annotate-online-text-videos-or-podcasts/
5 Highlighter Apps to Annotate Online Text, Videos, or Podcasts
Data comes in all forms these days. When you're conducting research, you'll need to read online articles, pick up physical books, watch videos on the internet, and even listen to podcasts. You need to highlight and annotate these different sources and remember why you bookmarked something. That's where these free tools will come in handy.
For my favorite niece.
https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/top-6-sites-to-find-and-print-free-sheet-music-nb/
The Top 7 Sites to Find and Print Free Sheet Music
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