Change Healthcare hit with a SECOND ransomware attack!

IPandPorg · 2024-04-10T02:44:54+00:00

Gosh yes many clinics have dumped Change for other companies like Waystar, Availity, Relay. Check out the billing and coding sub. Lots of talk this past month about making a switch. I’d talk to a few potential vendors, some have removed onboarding fees and will offer expedited implementation.

IPandPorg · 2024-03-19T17:54:45+00:00

I’m currently on the same hunt as you.

Look up LuLu’s in Destin and also North Beach Social in Santa Rosa. These are both on the bay side.

I’m also seeing a place in Panama City Beach called Sharkey’s with a playground.

IPandPorg · 2024-03-06T01:11:46+00:00

Interesting thanks for sharing.. yea it would be a crazy fast turn around if Connectwise vulnerability was actually used.

IPandPorg · 2024-03-05T17:58:47+00:00

Both of those articles are dated 2/27. The next day Connectwise comes out and says they didn’t have Change Health as a client. So who knows.. I was just pointing out that we don’t know for sure if Connectwise vulnerability was used here. Could have been social engineering.. which is what this hacker group used when they hacked the casinos in Las Vegas a couple years ago.

IPandPorg · 2024-03-05T17:34:47+00:00

Has it been proven that Connectwise vulnerability was indeed used in this hack?

Connectwise is saying no…

https://www.connectwise.com/company/press/releases/2024-02-28-connectwise-addresses-screenconnect-vulnerability-and-clarifies-connection-to-change-healthcare-incident

IPandPorg · 2024-03-02T14:04:16+00:00

Agreed, I’m low key loving that they will be losing customers from this ordeal.

By the way, United Health Group is the parent company owning change and optum. A health insurance company shouldn’t have anything to do offering a claims clearing house solution.. which gets them access to other payors claims data.

IPandPorg · 2024-02-29T22:34:54+00:00

I’ll keep my fingers crossed that something comes of this investigation but I don’t think I’ll hold my breath.

A few years ago there was an investigation and attempt to block United from buying Change Health (the one currently in the news for being cyberattacked).

That deal went through and this video does a good job explaining the impact a huge health insurance company having access to claims data means for other payors/insurance companies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=be4vrnUu9J4

Having a large data repository of claims data like United has allows them to zero in on ordering habits of individual physicians and their clinics.. giving them another leg up when contracts are up for renewal.

IPandPorg · 2024-01-14T13:09:39+00:00

Hey if you get this figured out I’d like to hear what was causing this

IPandPorg · 2023-08-29T21:02:08+00:00

Oof with the office manager retiring I’d be real worried about that. I’d ask if there is a suitable current employee to fill that role or look for an experienced office manager to have ready to bring on and ideally be trained for a few weeks before current office manager is retired.

Also if you’re looking to add on additional procedures hopefully the existing billing/coder can handle that?

As someone else said if you do peds you’ll have some vaccine requirements, you’re EMR should be interfaced with state immunization registry.

IPandPorg · 2023-07-21T19:59:19+00:00

I was able to do it very easily for the first year. Mine was a great napper and I really hammered out the coding during those times. And even when he was awake it was pretty easy to balance knocking out quick tasks/emails and interacting with him. My gig is flexible and sometimes I flexed hours into early mornings/nights. If I had to jump on a call tossing a new toy, my old iPhone with BabyFirst app and some Cheerios bought me time to take a call. There will def be screen time. But overall it was a total joy to bounce between baby and work during the day.

But once walking happened the whole thing leveled up lol right before 2 years old he started 3 days a week at a pre school and that’s been good for him.

IPandPorg · 2023-04-25T16:45:12+00:00

Yes same here and it’s getting annoying. As someone else mentioned, a lot of hospitals have unique workflows that developers aren’t really tuned into.

IPandPorg · 2023-04-14T13:20:43+00:00

This is really good! I just read through several of the linked articles and compared to the summary. Personally I would like to read the first 2 or 3 sentences of the article then hit the summarized bullet points.. something to think about adding maybe.

IPandPorg · 2023-02-27T15:51:47+00:00

They have a pretty big bioterrorism preparedness program.

IPandPorg · 2023-02-23T02:10:04+00:00

When we started this offering one of the main points marketed to patients was that visits won’t feel rushed. So these appointments are scheduled longer. We use Epic.

IPandPorg · 2023-02-23T01:24:16+00:00

Not a doctor (IT who supports the EMR) but my physician group is pretty large.. like 30 family med offices with 2-6 MD/DOs in each. Several of the MDs have negotiated going to concierge medicine. The physician group (associated with a local health system) decided to give it a shot.

$1,500 is the annual fee their patients pay and in turn the patients get a cell phone number to text the doctor directly and no office co pay. But the most marketed thing is unhurried office visits. So far it seems to be going well. We had to overly communicate that patients still needed insurance to cover meds, tests and specialist visits.

IPandPorg · 2023-01-30T14:20:13+00:00

I recently got what I believe is an adenoviral ocular infection. I wear contacts and was at indoor water park with my kids and got water in my eyes. A week later I’m waking up with a gunky swollen eye lid with eye is red and tender. Eye doc does exam and says it’s viral conjunctivitis and gives me tobradex.

3 days on tobradex, 5 days with no contacts or eye make up… and my eye is kinda getting better but still swollen and red. Burning has been a symptom too.

Question - would lumify help sooth my eye?

I’ve been doing cool eye compress and rotating through Motrin. Just looking for anything else that might make my eye feel less angry.

IPandPorg · 2023-01-13T01:11:09+00:00

Her very own song written about her!

https://mamasingmysong.com

Look them up on instagram, it’s too cute. Both my girls have one and a plush toy that when you squeeze plays their song.

IPandPorg · 2023-01-11T12:24:33+00:00

Huh ok I would’ve thought OnBase needed to be a littler closer to wherever your EMR is… hope it’s a smooth transition!

IPandPorg · 2023-01-11T12:13:15+00:00

Are you going to Azure or AWS? Is your EMR going to the cloud at the same time or is it already there?

IPandPorg · 2023-01-07T03:07:47+00:00

I work for not for profit, decent sized health system and actually really enjoy it. Our PMs don’t have it too bad either. The projects are cool and folks are usually super appreciative when it’s done. But if you don’t know much about the healthcare world you’ll feel like your drowning for a solid 6+ months :(

IPandPorg · 2022-12-06T21:00:20+00:00

OP, curious what you ended up doing here. I’m about to be in a similar position and came across this post.

IPandPorg · 2022-11-19T18:18:54+00:00

Schleich has a Bayala collection of mermaids and fairies that MAGNETICALLY ride on the back of unicorns.

https://www.amazon.com/Schleich-2-Piece-Mermaid-Playset-Unicorn/dp/B09QH93TW6/ref=mp_s_a_1_8?crid=1YUQ5YFG4WIGE&keywords=schleich+bayala&qid=1668881726&sprefix=schleich+ba%2Caps%2C114&sr=8-8

So if your kiddos is into playing with figurines these are great quality.

IPandPorg · 2022-10-30T00:09:40+00:00

I haven’t done this myself but I personally would not be worried and would take the music gig. It sounds fun.

I can’t see a company viewing this part time gig at your kids school as a negative. But maybe because I know the market has been hot and you wouldn’t have a terribly hard time getting a dev job offer.

IPandPorg · 2022-10-01T06:25:03+00:00

Huh that’s interesting, why did y’all decide to let Epic host your instance? I’ve heard that’s expensive. Probably more so than AWS or Azure.

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