Chief Healthcare Executive March 20, 2024
Health system leaders know the financial risks of cyberattacks, as shown by the Change Healthcare attack. Now, they are seeing cybersecurity is essential to protecting patients.
The Change Healthcare cyberattack has shown that such attacks can be costly to hospitals and other providers, but they also pose a grave risk to patient care.
About 3 in 4 hospitals (74%) said the Change Healthcare ransomware attack has interfered with patient care, according to a survey released last week by the American Hospital Association. Some hospitals point to delays in patient care due to disruptions in securing approval from insurers. In announcing an investigation of the attack, federal officials cited “a direct threat to critically needed patient care.”
Even before the Change...
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