Healthcare Cyberattack at Ascension Leaves Facilities Scrambling

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The recent cybersecurity breach at Ascension has sent shockwaves through the healthcare industry, highlighting the urgent need for robust cybersecurity measures. This incident underscores the vulnerability of clinical operations to malicious cyber threats, prompting healthcare providers to scramble to mitigate the breach’s impact and restore normalcy to patient care. As questions linger about the broader […]

The Change Healthcare Hack: What Actually Happened and What It Means for Your Practice

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In February 2024, a ransomware group called ALPHV/BlackCat broke into Change Healthcare, a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group that processes roughly 40% of all U.S. medical claims. They got in through one remote-access portal that didn’t have multi-factor authentication enabled. What followed was the largest healthcare data breach in American history, a months-long billing outage that […]

Create A Solid Business Continuity Plan

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Disaster always seems to hit us when we least expect it, which is why you need business continuity. With the various disasters that continue to occur, this has proven to us that no business or organization can truly afford to think that an emergency will never have an impact on their livelihood and their business […]