03/14/2024
If you've tried to fill a prescription in the past three weeks, your medicine may have been held up by, of all things, a breach. The on abruptly halted about one-third of the financial transactions at the heart of delivering care in a multi-payer health system.
As Change Healthcare slowly comes back online, providers, patients, lobbying groups, and politicians are all griping about the massive disruption to business as usual. Were you personally affected by the Change breach? What lessons can we all learn about business consolidation and the improvement of security practices?
The Change Healthcare ransomware event is a critical infrastructure attack with bigger ramifications than most health system users have realized.