HIT Consultant November 21, 2024
In recent years, several major health information exchange platforms in the United States have fallen victim to ransomware attacks. These platforms play a crucial role in U.S. healthcare infrastructure, facilitating the flow of patient records and managing payments for extensive networks of providers, including hundreds of thousands of doctors, tens of thousands of pharmacies, thousands of hospitals, and hundreds of laboratories. Some of these systems process billions of claims annually, totaling over a trillion dollars, for vast networks of providers.
The financial and reputational fallout from these incidents has been profound. Although complete damage totals are still being calculated, in many cases, early estimates suggest that such attacks can cost healthcare organizations hundreds of millions to billions of dollars.
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