September 16, 2024- On Feb. 21, a company many in the industry were not familiar with – Change Healthcare – experienced a cyberattack that critically impacted the U.S. healthcare system. At the time, the healthcare clearinghouse, touched one in three patient records and processed 15 billion healthcare transactions annually. Potentially devastating to many physician practices and their patients, the cyberattack provided distributors an opportunity to step in and help them weather the storm.
“Cyber incidents are the new normal,” says Ryan Hungate, DDS, MS, chief clinical officer, Henry Schein One.
“The numbers are increasing because of growing vulnerabilities in healthcare systems,” wrote the editors of The Lancet in late May. “Electronic health records, medical devices, laboratory services, pharmacies, clinical decision support systems and many more applications and services are digitally interconnected and used by many different users.
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