Fierce Health Payers October 27, 2019
LAS VEGAS—Mastercard is expanding the reach of its financial expertise—particularly when it comes to cybersecurity—into the healthcare industry.
The financial services company best known for its credit cards is launching Mastercard Healthcare Solutions, a collection of software products aimed at tackling perennial pain points in the business of healthcare, officials announced at the HLTH conference in Las Vegas on Sunday.
The new product suite—which will target both payers and providers, as well as technology platforms used by payers and providers—will include a host of data security offerings. This will include improved biometrics and behavioral analytics to protect health information against the ever-rising threat of data breaches.
Nearly 32 million patient records were breached in the first half of 2019, compared...