For years now, U.S. healthcare has been experiencing something of a revolution: Better technologyandcomputersystems have radically improved the quality of healthcare.
The online attack comes on the heels of recent hacks into the computersystems of U.S. media andtechnology companies, including The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.
The core processing systems of insurance companies, airlines and banks, for instance, are built on a mainframe-computer technology that celebrated its 40th anniversary this year.