This is two hours and 15 minutes. I ask all of her guests to please take their seats. The chair recognizes himself for five minutes of an opening statement. Todays hearing is about what is likely the most consequential cyber attack and healthcare history. How could Something Like this happen . How did consolidation and Health Insurance industry reach such a state that a single ransom or attack on one company crippled the flow of payments and claims for months. Change healthcare unitedhealth club subsidiary for the Cyber Security attack. Roughly 50 of claims a passthrough or touch changes clearinghouse providers have this much of the medical claims process the market share it makes them a large target for bad actors. Its even more sounding when you consider the attack itself reportedly compromise without multi factor authentication. I am concerned about patients who have been affected. Many patients were left left out of pocket for medication the pharmacy cannot process their claims or
When you are connected along these other television providers. Unitedhealth group ceo andrew testify for house lawmakers of a recent cyber attack on change healthcare. A subsidiary of the group that disrupted the payment and claims process for providers. He was asked about cooperation with the federal officials and the help he offered to those impacted by the cyber attack. This is two hours and 15 minutes. I ask all of her guests to please take their seats. The chair recognizes himself for five minutes of an opening statement. Todays hearing is about what is likely the most consequential cyber attack and healthcare history. How could Something Like this happen . How did consolidation and Health Insurance industry reach such a state that a single ransom or attack on one company crippled the flow of payments and claims for months. Change healthcare unitedhealth club subsidiary for the Cyber Security attack. Roughly 50 of claims a passthrough or touch changes clearinghouse providers have
And history across america . We will take you live do a house subcommittee hearing on Cyber Attacks that have affected Healthcare Systems and we will hear from the ceo of United Health group which experienced a cyber attack. It will now come to order in the chair recognizes himself for a fiveminute Opening Statement in todays hearing is about what likely is the most consequential cyber attack and healthcare history and how could Something Like this happen . How did consolidation in a Health Insurance industry reach such a state that a single Ransomware Attack on one company crippled the flow of payments and claims for months and it was subject to the Cyber Security attack and it operates the largest electronic data interchange clearinghouse in the nation with 50 of u. S. Medical claims passthrough or touch this making it an essential link between providers and insurers and a Single Company having this much medical claims Processing Market share makes them a large target for bad actors
State about security challenges. I want to welcome my panelists up here. Thank you for being to participate in this discussion. Obviously, its the topic day jour for Election Administrators and folks like jeremy in the Computer Science community dealing with election cybersecurity, securing the elections process. Just as a way of background, this topic is the topic de jour coming out of the elections where we saw state actors targeting systems and vendors and sphere fishing attempts in 2016 as well as declaration of elections as Critical Infrastructure. By the department of security. I hope we can talk about the operating environment. S and what steps were looking to secure the process looking at 2018 and how you are. Jeremy gray was supposed to be here from l. A. County and he came down with the flu. We thank him for not coming. We thank him for not coming. I will tee it up to do quick three to five minute opening remarks and then get into the discussion if thats okay. My far right is
Thank you for being to participate in this discussion. Obviously, its the topic day jour for Election Administrators and folks like jeremy in the Computer Science community dealing with election cybersecurity, securing the elections process. Just as a way of background, this topic is the topic de jour coming out of the elections where we saw state actors targeting systems and vendors and sphere fishing attempts in 2016 as well as declaration of elections as Critical Infrastructure. By the department of security. I hope we can talk about the operating environment. S and what steps were looking to secure the process looking at 2018 and how you are. Jeremy gray was supposed to be here from l. A. County and he came down with the flu. We thank him for not coming. We thank him for not coming. I will tee it up to do quick three to five minute opening remarks and then get into the discussion if thats okay. My far right is jeremy epstein, a long time involved in Election Research and member of