Two Years After the Change Healthcare Cyberattack, Healthcare Still Has a Clearinghouse Redundancy Problem
What happened was not just a cybersecurity failure, it was an infrastructure failure.
One Year Post-Change Healthcare Cyber Attack: What Keeps This Healthcare CTO Awake at Night
In this game of 3D chess, our opponent is becoming more sophisticated, and healthcare organizations must constantly focus on protecting their most valued pieces, their data. The possible ramifications across healthcare are too valuable to let our guard down.
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From Blind Spots to Better Outcomes: How SNF Data Transparency Strengthens LTSS
What if health plans could identify member decline before an avoidable hospitalization occurs? Real-time clinical visibility into long-stay SNF members uncovers risk earlier and drives better outcomes.
Healthcare’s Cybersecurity Crisis: Why Today’s Defenses Are Failing Against Evolving Threats
Healthcare providers and vendors are learning the hard way that hackers are relentless and resourceful, constantly adjusting tactics and tools and using new technology, including AI, to launch more sophisticated attacks.
How To Spot Deepfakes and Other Cybersecurity Panel Takeaways from HLTH
Two chief information security officers offer some advice at a cybersecurity panel at HLTH.
Health Systems Are Still Missing Payments Because of the Change Healthcare Cyberattack
Six months after Change Healthcare suffered its cyberattack, some health systems are still missing payments for patient encounters from February, according to a new report. It showed that small hospitals are still missing about 3-5% of expected net revenue for patient encounters from February.
Credit Monitoring Won’t Save You: The True Fallout of the Change Healthcare Hack is Just Beginning
The attack has given detailed dossiers on millions of lives to criminals, employers, enemies and anyone with the means and motivation to exploit them. This isn't just another data breach, it's a healthcare catastrophe — and it's being inexplicably downplayed.
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Closing the Quality-Affordability Gap in Workplace Mental Health
In an interview, Kyan Health Co-Founder and Chief Commercial Officer Konstantin Struck discussed how Kyan gives mid-market and enterprise employers access to premium workforce mental healthcare, at a price point that is affordable.
NCPA, Providers File Lawsuit Against UHG Over Change Healthcare Cyberattack
The National Community Pharmacists Association and providers argued that Change Healthcare didn't take the needed precautions against the cyberattack that happened earlier this year.
Key Moments From the Change Healthcare Cyberattack Senate Hearing
Andrew Witty, CEO of UnitedHealth Group, faced bipartisan outrage from senators on the Senate Finance Committee angered by his company's cybersecurity failures. Here were the key moments from the hearing on Wednesday.
Medical Providers Still Grappling With UnitedHealth Cyberattack: ‘More Devastating Than Covid’
Two months after a cyberattack on a UnitedHealth Group subsidiary halted payments to some doctors, medical providers say they’re still grappling with the fallout, even though UnitedHealth told shareholders on Tuesday that business is largely back to normal.
4 Lessons We Learned From The Change Healthcare Cyberattack
Healthcare industry leaders think there is much to learn from the Change Healthcare cyberattack, and they hope the sector can apply these lessons to prevent a hack like this from ever happening again. Overall, the chaotic aftermath of the attack underscores the dire need for a more unified approach to cybersecurity within the healthcare sector.
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Automation Didn’t Dehumanize Care. Bad Systems Did.
We have the opportunity to design systems that give people greater capacity for the work where human presence matters most: listening, understanding, reassuring, deciding, and caring.
Intermountain Health CISO: The Industry Needs Better Transparency After Cyberattacks
After a healthcare cyberattack, the impacted organization often doesn't want to divulge a lot of information, Intermountain Health CISO Erik Decker said last week at HIMSS. However, he thinks healthcare organizations should be more transparent with their peers after an attack because "no one system operates independent of everybody else."
6 HIMSS Announcements You Don’t Want to Miss
This year's HIMSS conference featured a variety of news announcements — from acquisitions to new product launches to advanced partnerships. In this list, MedCity News compiled short summaries for six of the conference's most notable announcements.
Answering 7 Key Questions About Change Healthcare’s Cyberattack
The aftermath the cyberattack on Change Healthcare remains messy, with patients across the country still struggling to obtain their prescriptions. The federal government has even stepped in to help address the fallout of the attack, urging payers to quickly alleviate the digital bottlenecks that providers and pharmacies are facing.
Tampa General Hospital CEO on Change Healthcare Breach: They Are Going To Have To Give an Update Soon
In an interview at the Vive conference in Los Angeles, John Couris said that while he is sympathetic toward Change Healthcare's current woes, he wants definitive answers soon.
‘Nation-State’ Cyberattack Hits Change Healthcare, Disrupting Pharmacy Services Across the Country
Pharmacies across the country are facing disruptions following a cyberattack on Change Healthcare — which is owned by Optum, a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group. In a filing with the SEC, UnitedHealth stated that the unauthorized party that gained access to Change Healthcare's systems was a “suspected nation-state associated cyber security threat actor."