Beware The Change Event

Over the past two months, one story was in every health care news source—the Change Healthcare cyberattack.;In case you happened to miss the many articles as the saga unfolded, Change Heatlhcare was the victim of a ransomware attack on February 21 (see;UnitedHealth Paid Ransom In Change Healthcare Cyberattack, Says Patient Data Was Compromised).;And after nine days, the ransomware attack was finally resolved by paying the hackers—$22 million;in the form of bitcoin according to many sources (see UnitedHealth Paid Ransom After Massive Change Healthcare Cyberattack).

The ransomware attack brought to light . . .