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🚨 Important Reads: JUCM's latest articles on the Change Healthcare cyberattack ⬇️ 1️⃣ "Providers Seek Damages, Injunctive Relief for Change Cyberattack" covers the lawsuit by 39 healthcare providers and the NCPA against UnitedHealth Group, highlighting the financial and operational impacts of the ransomware attack. Read more >> https://bit.ly/3AhcPRy 2️⃣ "What Did We Learn from the Change Healthcare Outage" by Phyllis Dobberstein, our Revenue Cycle Management Compliance Manager. This piece explores the key lessons from the outage, the widespread disruptions caused, and the reporting obligations under HIPAA. Read more >> https://bit.ly/46AqbUN

UnitedHealth Group (“UHC”) paid a ransom to protect patient data after a cyberattack on its subsidiary Change Healthcare (“CHC”). While ongoing data review continues, affected health plans and participants haven't been officially notified. UHC found files containing sensitive information affecting many Americans. To mitigate any harm resulting from the CHC breach, we recommend that ERISA-regulated plans which may be impacted by the breach inform their plan participants of the CHC event. Such plans should direct their participants to call the tollfree number (1-866-262-5342) listed on the consumer website to request two years of free credit monitoring. Read more in the latest Privacy & Security Alert from partners Ann Murray, Michelle W. Johnson, Kenneth Janik, Rob Sheridan, Sue Stoffer, Matthew R. Zischke, of counsel Deborah Hembree, and associates Geoffrey Fay and Elaine Drafts: https://lnkd.in/dNxk8qct

Probably more significant than the cause of the Change Healthcare attack, or the outage it created, or the ransom that was paid: this was also a monstrous data leak, with the PII of potentially “a substantial portion of people in America” slipping into the wrong hands. If you view the latest attack at Ascencion Healthcare within this context, or just consider the awful truth that the Change Healthcare attack was itself rooted in compromised credentials, then you start to see how one breach eventually begets thousands of others. This is going to get worse before it gets better. https://lnkd.in/exWacpZ4

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The healthcare industry is a juicy target for cybercriminals eager to get their hands on all the personal data they can hold. Learn what lessons can be learned and how businesses can put protections in place: https://ow.ly/Ccvw50RSBL2

The healthcare industry is a juicy target for cybercriminals eager to get their hands on all the personal data they can hold. Learn what lessons can be learned and how businesses can put protections in place: https://ow.ly/MlLg50RTmua

The healthcare industry is a juicy target for cybercriminals eager to get their hands on all the personal data they can hold. Learn what lessons can be learned and how businesses can put protections in place: https://ow.ly/PVWP50S40G5

The healthcare industry is a juicy target for cybercriminals eager to get their hands on all the personal data they can hold. Learn what lessons can be learned and how businesses can put protections in place: https://ow.ly/HXEI50UqYGs

HHS OCR Proposes HIPAA Updates to Improve Data Security (December 31, 2024) The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) will publish a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to Strengthen Cybersecurity for Electronic Protected Health Information in the Federal Register on Monday, January 6, 2025. The notice proposed rule comes in response to a “significant increase in cyberattacks and common compliance deficiencies” and will be the first update to HIPAA in more than a decade. Want to read the proposed changes? Check them out at https://lnkd.in/gASCMQiF

💡 Citing the “alarming growth” of cyberattacks in recent years, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to modify the HIPAA Security Rule to strengthen the cybersecurity of electronic protected health information. As Dinsmore healthcare attorneys Jennifer O. Mitchell and Ashley Durner explain, the proposed rule, if finalized, will require covered entities and their business associates to make substantial updates to their privacy policies and procedures, workforce trainings, information technology systems and business associate agreements. https://lnkd.in/gawqCs_i