Healthcare IT News February 6, 2025
Even as the number of impacted individuals has been again revised upward, industry leaders say there are silver-lining lessons to learn from the incident about security frameworks, third-party risk and basic cyber hygiene.
It’s been nearly one year since reports started emerging that Change Healthcare, the enormous clearinghouse, was experiencing a significant cyberattack.
The company – which processes claims for hundreds of thousands of physicians, pharmacies and others, trafficking some 15 billion transactions each year – had been hit by BlackCat ransomware and essentially debilitated.
In the weeks and months afterward, the fallout continued as the size and scope of the breach became apparent, with countless healthcare organizations nationwide of all shapes and sizes unable to get their claims paid.
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