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Written on Jul 19, 2024

The Change Healthcare cyberattack shook U.S. health care to its core for months and exposed major cyber vulnerabilities. But the likely ripple effects on individuals are only now becoming apparent. 

Small health care organizations increasingly are attractive targets for cybersecurity breaches but there are ways they can protect themselves. 

Industry groups such as the AHA and MGMA suggested that CISA’s proposed CIRCIA reporting requirements are redundant and burdensome for health care entities. 

With a deadline to extend current telehealth reimbursement policies fast approaching, a bipartisan group of policy advocates is calling on legislators to make telehealth a permanent fixture of US healthcare — and to simultaneously tighten oversight of potential fraud or compromised care quality.