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Computer security experts have been warning for years that a malicious computer virus unleashed by hackers or a terrorist group could create havoc in the healthcare system. On Thursday, we got a look at the kind of problems that could lie ahead for the national health IT infrastructure as the Zotub worm hit Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center and quickly propagated across the health system's network, shutting down access to patient medical records at its facilities across New Hampshire. …

Armed British police followed a man believed to be a wounded suicide bomber into University College Hospital in central London early this afternoon, as emergency services responded to what appears to be a second round of terrorist attacks on London. Hospital officials are searching the grounds for the man, described as wearing a "blue shirt with wires protruding from his clothing." Police have responded to three separate incidents at underground stations around the city and one bus. So far, casualties are low. Story

Jacobi Medical Center in New York City is the subject of controversy after word that the hospital failed to inform patients of positive test results for a routine cancer screen. The hospital did not inform more than 300 women that they had positive results in a pap smear test, a routine test used to screen for possible cases of cervical cancer. Hospital officials say the error happened due to an administrative snafu, caused by staffing cutbacks. The one clerk assigned to process test …