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San Diego-based Alvarado Hospital Medical Center and King's Daughters' Health report being hit with malware that compromised their computer systems.

A Community Health Systems subsidiary has gained 80 percent ownership interest in Physicians' Specialty Hospital, a 20-bed facility in Fayetteville, Arkansas, CHS announced Friday.

If the spate of recent ransomware attacks on hospitals across the U.S. is any indication of the future of cybercrime, it's clear that hackers are far from finished in pushing boundaries and wreaking havoc on healthcare. The new ransomware, PowerWare, is the latest example.

The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research and the Parkinson's Action Network have announced plans to integrate. MJFF made the announcement in a statement, saying that PAN will cease to operate as an independent organization, and will merge into the Foundation.

UPMC, the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, will increase minimum starting salaries for entry-level positions to $15 an hour by January 2021, according to UPMC.com.

The healthcare system in the United States is spending billions per year unnecessarily by continuing to use manual administrative processes for basic transactions, according to the 2015 CAQH Index released Wednesday.

MedStar Health was forced to turn some patients away on Tuesday as it recovered from a computer virus.

Caleb Anderson said that one potential option is to have a vendor run the patient call center, submit claims, handle denials and more.

MedStar said in a statement that the virus prevented some employees from logging into system but that all of its clinics remain open and functioning.

Henry Ford Health System has licensed hundreds of its hospital food recipes in India's New Dehli National Capital Region, the system announced late last week. The NCR is the country's largest urban center, and the move is part a larger health and wellness effort.