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Top 10 Lab Stories for 2024 Reflect Important Trends
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXI, No. 17 – December 16, 2024 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Most clinical laboratory managers will agree that the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) final rule to regulate laboratory developed tests (LDTs) is the biggest lab industry story for 2024. Every laboratory performing LDTs must now devote money and time to comply with the…
Change Healthcare Cyberattack Involved 100 Million Americans
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXI No. 15 – November 4, 2024 Issue
AFTER EXPERIENCING WHAT MANY CYBERSECURITY EXPERTS consider to be one of the largest, most disruptive ransomware attacks ev…
September 3, 2024, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXI, No. 12 – September 3, 2024 Issue
To challenge the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) final rule on laboratory developed tests (LDTs,) the Association for Molecular Pathology (AMP) filed a lawsuit on August 20, 2024, in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Tex…
Why Ransomware Attacks Are a Threat to Your Lab
By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XXXI, No. 7 – May 20, 2024 Issue
Have you and your lab management team noticed the major…
Change Healthcare Hit by Major Cyberattack
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXI, No. 4 – March 18, 2024 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: It was a classic ransomware attack against Change Healthcare, the business unit of Optum that is itself a division of UnitedHealth Group. On Feb. 21, this cyberattack shut down critical systems at Change Healthcare, such as those involved in accepting and forwarding prescript…
Ransomware Attacks Target Vulnerable Healthcare Providers
By Mary Van Doren | From the Volume XXVIII, No. 7 – May 24, 2021 Issue
This is an excerpt of a 1,923-word article in the May 24, 2021 issue of THE DARK REPORT (TDR). The full article is available to members of The Dark Intelligence Group. CEO SUMMARY: Both malware and ransomware have been around for a number of years. But the attacks launched today …
Ransomware Attackers Target Health Providers
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXVIII, No. 7 – May 24, 2021 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Both malware and ransomware have been around for a number of years. But the attacks launched today against healthcare providers are more sophisticated and better at achieving the total shutdown of targeted hospitals, doctor groups, and clinical laboratories. For this re…
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