A shared service between Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust and Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital NHS Foundation Trust was the source of an INC Ransom cyber attack, impacting patient data at both hospitals and Royal Liverpool University Hospital. The breach came via a digital gateway service and officials are investigating which data was stolen. The ransomware group could publish the data before the investigation concludes, but frontline services remain unaffected.
‘Self-evolving’ virtual hospital concept in China to go public in 2025
Researchers at Tsinghua University are developing a self-evolving, autonomous virtual hospital system called Agent Hospital, scheduled to go public next year. The AI-based virtual hospital