More than 100 medical industry groups have asked the Feds to make UnitedHealth Group, not them, go through the rigmarole of notifying everyone about the Change Healthcare ransomware infection. In a letter to the US Department of Health and Human Services, 102 national and state medical associations – whose members relied on UnitedHealth’s IT systems to process patient data – urged HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra to make it crystal clear that their doctors, surgeons, and other healthcare professionals should be off the hook for alerting individuals that their sensitive info was stolen in the February intrusion into UnitedHealth.
Source: The Register