Healthcare Innovation September 9, 2024
A team of healthcare policy and medical-informatics leaders calls for provider action in the wake of the Change Healthcare debacle
A team of healthcare policy, medical-informatics, and cybersecurity leaders on Sep. 9 published an article in the Viewpoint section of JAMA Internal Medicine online, looking at what the industry might learn from the Change Healthcare debacle. In “Cybersecurity Lessons from the Change Healthcare Attack,” Haan T. Neprash, Ph.D., Christian Dameff, M.D., and Jeffrey Tully, M.D., examine some of the elements of what happened earlier this year to Change Healthcare, and what steps could be taken from the breach disaster.
The authors note that “The recent ransomware attack on the technology conglomerate Change Healthcare may herald a new era of cyber...