Nine months after a ransomware attack on health payment processing company Change Healthcare, the impact on medical practices, providers and patients continues to reverberate. The cyberattack saw the UnitedHealth Group subsidiary knocked offline, disrupting billions of dollars in payments and compromising sensitive information for millions of patients. Such breaches are feared to become more common and disruptive, given the healthcare sector’s wealth of money, sensitive data and personal information – all of which can be exploited by cybercriminals.
Dispersed responsibility, lack of asset inventory is causing gaps in medical device cybersecurity
Witnesses at a House hearing on medical device cybersecurity highlighted the need for better tracking of devices and their vulnerability to cyber threats. They noted
