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.
ASTP appoints 3 new health IT leaders: CTO, CDO and CAIO
The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has filled three key technology roles. Alicia Rouault, formerly of the White House’s United States Digital