HIMSS24: Change Healthcare outage is the elephant in the room
03/18/24 at 03:00 AM
HIMSS24: Change Healthcare outage is the elephant in the room
Modern Healthcare - Digital Health, by Brock E.W. Turner; 3/14/24
There's certainly buzz about the Change Healthcare data breach at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society’s annual conference. But getting executives to talk openly about it is a non-starter. The breach, which has hobbled systems nationwide, has put even greater emphasis on the topics of cybersecurity and protecting patient data. But many attendees at the event in Orlando, Florida, have been unwilling to discuss it on the record, citing their relationship with the claims processing company owned by UnitedHealth Group.