2025-06-03
UPDATED: After STAT's report that the FDA was going to release the AI tool tomorrow, the agency released it today ❄️Have you used Elsa? Is it “a bit of a fixer-upper” or a great step “into the unknown”? Would love to hear your experiences. Confidential line: btrang.01 on Signal
Axios
The US FDA debuts an agencywide generative AI tool to help scientific reviewers and others streamline work and, soon, to find high-priority inspection targets
from scientific reviewers to investigators—work more efficiently. This innovative tool modernizes agency functions and leverages AI capabilities to better serve the American people...
2024-05-02
Senators were not happy with UnitedHealth CEO Andrew Witty at today's Senate hearing. “'Is the dominant role of United too dominant?' Because it's into everything, and messing up United messes up everybody.” He faces the House next this afternoon. https://www.statnews.com/...
CNBC
US Senate hearing: UnitedHealth's CEO says the company paid a $22M ransom to the hackers who accessed a Change Healthcare server that wasn't protected by MFA
delayed payment, staff OT to deal with claims processing - despite United's current assistance. Ed Markey / @senmarkey : As American health care prices skyrocket, UnitedHealth's CE...
Senators were not happy with UnitedHealth CEO Andrew Witty at today's Senate hearing. “'Is the dominant role of United too dominant?' Because it's into everything, and messing up United messes up everybody.” He faces the House next this afternoon. https://www.statnews.com/...
TechCrunch
Testimony: UnitedHealth CEO Andrew Witty says the Change Healthcare hack impacted “maybe” 30% of US citizens; UnitedHealth will notify users in “several months”
Two months after hackers broke into Change Healthcare systems stealing and then encrypting company data …
2024-04-17
Lawmakers were mad UnitedHealth didn't show at today's hearing about the Change cyberattack and health care cyber security. But UnitedHealth has promised to testify soon, and today's questions may set the tone: https://www.statnews.com/... via @statnews
The Register
UnitedHealth says the February ransomware attack on Change Healthcare cost the company $872M in Q1; another ransomware group appears to be extorting the company
https://www.constellationr.com/ ... Dan Hon / @danhon@dan.mastohon.com : Excited to see a new $100/mo surcharge on US healthcare insurance premiums next year to cover cybersecurity...
2024-03-01
SCOOP @statnews: UnitedHealth is planning for the Change outage to last several weeks, per UHG president This comes after a week+ of messages saying the outage will “last at least through the day,” frustrating providers who are scrambling to compensate https://www.statnews.com/...
CNBC
Change Healthcare confirms that the ransomware group BlackCat is behind the ongoing attack that has caused widespread disruptions to pharmacies across the US
Ashley Capoot / CNBC :