Managed Healthcare Executive August 13, 2024
Healthcare organizations need prompt, actionable advice to enhance their cyber resilience, ensuring more secure and convenient communications and services for patients, shareholders, third parties, staff, and other affiliates moving forward.
The healthcare industry is dealing with unprecedented disruption. The recent cyberattacks on Change Healthcare—ransoming the organization twice and broadly impacting third parties—have deeply affected both patient experiences and financial operations. Attackers will continue to exploit vulnerable healthcare organizations, especially considering those organizations often do not know their vulnerabilities exist.
From a cybersecurity perspective, the Change Healthcare attacks are rife with implications of industry shortcomings. Many healthcare organizations allocate insufficient resources to cybersecurity, leading to outdated systems, inadequate training, and limited incident response capabilities. When employees in healthcare settings are not...