In this game of 3D chess, our opponent is becoming more sophisticated, and healthcare organizations must constantly focus on protecting their most valued pieces, their data. The possible ramifications across healthcare are too valuable to let our guard down.

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Healthcare providers and vendors are learning the hard way that hackers are relentless and resourceful, constantly adjusting tactics and tools and using new technology, including AI, to launch more sophisticated attacks.

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Two chief information security officers offer some advice at a cybersecurity panel at HLTH.

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Six months after Change Healthcare suffered its cyberattack, some health systems are still missing payments for patient encounters from February, according to a new report. It showed that small hospitals are still missing about 3-5% of expected net revenue for patient encounters from February.

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The attack has given detailed dossiers on millions of lives to criminals, employers, enemies and anyone with the means and motivation to exploit them. This isn’t just another data breach, it’s a healthcare catastrophe — and it’s being inexplicably downplayed.

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The National Community Pharmacists Association and providers argued that Change Healthcare didn’t take the needed precautions against the cyberattack that happened earlier this year.

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Andrew Witty, CEO of UnitedHealth Group, faced bipartisan outrage from senators on the Senate Finance Committee angered by his company’s cybersecurity failures. Here were the key moments from the hearing on Wednesday.

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Two months after a cyberattack on a UnitedHealth Group subsidiary halted payments to some doctors, medical providers say they’re still grappling with the fallout, even though UnitedHealth told shareholders on Tuesday that business is largely back to normal.

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Healthcare industry leaders think there is much to learn from the Change Healthcare cyberattack, and they hope the sector can apply these lessons to prevent a hack like this from ever happening again. Overall, the chaotic aftermath of the attack underscores the dire need for a more unified approach to cybersecurity within the healthcare sector.

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After a healthcare cyberattack, the impacted organization often doesn’t want to divulge a lot of information, Intermountain Health CISO Erik Decker said last week at HIMSS. However, he thinks healthcare organizations should be more transparent with their peers after an attack because “no one system operates independent of everybody else.”

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This year’s HIMSS conference featured a variety of news announcements — from acquisitions to new product launches to advanced partnerships. In this list, MedCity News compiled short summaries for six of the conference’s most notable announcements.

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The aftermath the cyberattack on Change Healthcare remains messy, with patients across the country still struggling to obtain their prescriptions. The federal government has even stepped in to help address the fallout of the attack, urging payers to quickly alleviate the digital bottlenecks that providers and pharmacies are facing.

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In an interview at the Vive conference in Los Angeles, John Couris said that while he is sympathetic toward Change Healthcare’s current woes, he wants definitive answers soon.

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Pharmacies across the country are facing disruptions following a cyberattack on Change Healthcare — which is owned by Optum, a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group. In a filing with the SEC, UnitedHealth stated that the unauthorized party that gained access to Change Healthcare’s systems was a “suspected nation-state associated cyber security threat actor.”

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Combining the two companies may give UnitedHealth unfair access to its competitors data that is operated by Change Healthcare, the DOJ warned it its complaint, but a DC judge has blocked the complaint.

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The Department of Justice filed the lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to stop the deal just ahead of it being finalized on February 27.

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In both word and action, the Biden administration has ushered in an aggressive new era of antitrust enforcement. Less than a year in, administration leaders have rescinded previous antitrust guidelines, sometimes without explicit replacement, and stopped pending mergers dead in their tracks. It is difficult to cast judgment on so broad a policy shift, but […]

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The companies have certified substantial compliance with a request for additional information from the Department of Justice, which opened an investigation of the merger in March. They struck an agreement with the agency not to merge until February of 2022, unless it drops its investigation before then. 

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Independent and community pharmacies seek to prevent UHG and Change merging into a “corporate monster” that will stifle competition.

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Consumers want the healthcare industry to meet them where they are, and this shift in patient mindset has expanded the definition of home healthcare and who benefits from it, according to a panel at MedCity INVEST Digital Health conference.

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INVEST Digital Health is set for September 20-23, and held in collaboration with Medical Alley. It brings together innovative investors across the healthcare spectrum, prominent industry players and the most promising digital health startups.

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The American Hospital Association is urging the Justice Department to thoroughly review UnitedHealth’s intended acquisition of Change Healthcare. The transaction would reduce competition in the health IT arena and result in higher prices and lower quality of care, the hospital group says.

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Optum, a subsidiary of insurance giant UnitedHealth Group, agreed to buy healthcare technology company Change Healthcare for $13.5 billion in cash. The acquisition will add data analytics, research and revenue cycle management offerings to Optum’s service roster.

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The resource includes services and access to a data analytics platform that can help providers identify and address social factors affecting the health of the populations they serve.

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Change Healthcare, a Nashville-based company that makes billing and analytics software, is rolling a new software that allows patients to order healthcare services in an ecommerce-like setting. The software allows patients to book, schedule and pay for healthcare services in advance.

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Change Healthcare bought back its pharmacy unit, eRx Network, for $212.9 million. At the same time, it sold its connected analytics business to Kaufman Hall.

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Be it consumerism or interoperability, payers and providers are not seeing eye to eye. And when it comes to value-based care, there is an even bigger disconnect between the two according to the results of a new survey.

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After a relatively quiet IPO market, 2019 has emerged as the year of the digital health IPO with Health Catalyst, Livongo Health, Phreesia, and Change Healthcare all going public earlier this year and Peloton going public in October. Will this last?

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According to the company’s prospectus, Phreesia’s platform facilitated more than 54 million patient visits for approximately 50,000 individual providers and processed more than $1.4 billion in payments over the course of FY 2019.

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Rock Health’s latest report found that in the first quarter of 2019, $986 million was invested across digital health deals, which is a little more than half the amount that was raised in Q1 2018.

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