Revenue-cycle software for thousands of hospitals. Billing data is clinical data wearing an accounting costume.
A three-month intrusion at the largest US public health system took biometric records among the 1.8 million affected. Credit monitoring does not cover a palm print.
The published “we don’t hit hospitals” rules were positioning. An operation whose affiliates pick the victims cannot implement a sector exclusion.
A third of hospitals say incidents affected care. It measures disruption, not harm — and it still moves the funding argument.
Hospitals reorder against expected supply. A delay of weeks means deferred procedures nobody will ever connect to a supplier’s IT incident.
A hundred and forty hospitals losing their record system is not a proportionate consequence of one download. What sits between is everything it was allowed to reach.
The fallback held for a month across 140 hospitals — because enough staff had worked that way before. That is a resource with a retirement date.