Livingston HealthCare in Livingston, Montana, says its phone system has been restored after a cybersecurity incident disrupted communications and led the hospital to take some systems offline, but network disruptions continue as restoration work proceeds. The nonprofit hospital said Feb. 13 that a "potential cybersecurity incident" disrupted its phone systems and network and that it temporarily took certain systems offline "out of an abundance of caution" while it assessed the situation and worked with outside experts.
Whenever medical AI handles anything with medium to high risk, you want regulation: internal self-regulation or external governmental regulation. It's mostly been internal thus far, and there are differences in how each hospital system validates, reviews, and monitors healthcare AI. When done on a hospital-by-hospital basis like this, costs to do this kind of evaluation and monitoring can be significant, which means some hospitals can do this, and some can't.
A water main break outside Alta Bates Summit Medical Center occurred on Friday morning, causing some service interruptions but no impact on hospital operations.
