McLaren Greater Lansing Physician Blog

  ION Robotic Bronchoscopy Launch  Congratulations to Dr. Salah Aboubakr and the McLaren Greater Lansing team today on successfully conducting the first procedure using the Ion Robotic Bronchoscopy platform, a technology that provides a comprehensive solution for diagnosing and staging lung cancer. Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in the U.S., accounting for about one in five cancer deaths. With the addition of the Ion Robotic Bronchoscopy, a platform for minimally invasive per...

McLaren Health Care Restores Network, Fully Operational Following Cyberattack McLaren Health Care is pleased to share that its information technology platforms are restored, and the health system’s clinical and administrative operations are fully functional across Michigan following a cyberattack earlier this month. The restoration process, which was expected to last until the end of the month, was completed ahead of schedule. With this return to normal operations, all temporary procedures enacted durin...

McLaren Health Care Operational Update - August 12 McLaren continues its efforts to fully restore its operations following last week’s criminal cyber attack. We continue to work with cyber security experts to determine if any patient or employee data was impacted. This is critical to our community and our teams, and it is a priority for us. Our hospitals and clinics have been largely operational, but we would like to update our patients and community about the status of the limited clinical services tha...

McLaren Health Care can now confirm the disruption to our information technology and phone systems that was reported yesterday was the result of a criminal cyber attack. Our information technology team continues to work with external cyber security experts to analyze the nature of the attack and mitigate the impacts of the threat actors. At this time, we have not determined if any patient or employee data was compromised. Impact on Operations Immediately after becoming aware of the attack, our hospitals...