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The Supreme Court has ruled Americans no longer have a constitutional right to abortion, and healthcare organizations say the ruling threatens the lives of patients.

States that pass laws barring abortion are simply going to end safe access to abortion, the American Medical Association said Friday. Patients’ lives are at stake, said Jack Resneck Jr., the AMA president.

​​“The American Medical Association is deeply disturbed by the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn nearly a half century of precedent protecting patients’ right to critical reproductive health care — representing an egregious allowance of government intrusion into the medical examination room, a direct attack on the practice of medicine and the patient-physician relationship, and a brazen violation of patients’ rights to evidence-based reproductive health services,” Resneck said in a 

“States that end legal abortion will not end abortion — they will end safe abortion, risking devasting consequences, including patients’ lives,” he said.

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 Friday overturned Roe v. Wade and leaves the question of abortion access to the individual states. Thirteen states, including Texas, have enacted “trigger bans” that will prohibit abortion within 30 days now that the court has ruled, 

 reports. Another seven states, including Ohio and Georgia, are expected to pass laws barring abortion within months or weeks, 

Whole Woman’s Health, which operates four abortion clinics in Texas, has stopped scheduling abortions in that state, 

 reported. Many women may now have to travel hundreds of miles to obtain an abortion, healthcare groups said.

When a draft of the high court’s decision leaked last month, 

 warned that it represents a dangerous government intrusion into healthcare.

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The ruling creates a rift between states in terms of access to healthcare, Resneck said in his statement.

Resneck also said it adds to disparities in healthcare and punishes those women who can’t afford to other states for abortion services. Many of those women are members of minority groups, he noted.

“State restrictions that intrude on the practice of medicine and interfere with the patient-physician relationship leave millions with little or no access to reproductive health services while criminalizing medical care,” Resneck said.

“Access to legal reproductive care will be limited to those with the sufficient resources, circumstances, and financial means to do so — exacerbating health inequities by placing the heaviest burden on patients from Black, Latinx, Indigenous, low-income, rural, and other historically disadvantaged communities who already face numerous structural and systemic barriers to accessing health care,” he added.

Hours before the ruling, the American Academy of Pediatrics issued a 

 saying that the organization supports the rights for adolescents to receive comprehensive reproductive healthcare services, including access to abortion.

Elise D. Berlan, co-author of the AAP’s policy statements on counseling pregnant teens, said all patients need to be able to get access to confidential care.

“Teenagers need accurate information about their reproductive health options, as well as other vital services like comprehensive sex education and contraception,” Berlan said.

“AAP is concerned that attempts to limit abortion care will not only interfere with the adolescents’ trusting, confidential relationship with their physician, but could result in real psychological and physical harm,” she added. “Any delays in healthcare can increase volatility within a family, limit pregnancy options, or cause someone to seek an unsafe abortion.”

Elizabeth Alderman, chair of the AAP Committee on Adolescence, noted that the ruling hurts patients of color and those in rural communities.

“Laws that restrict access to reproductive health care have a disproportionate impact on young people of color and those in rural and medically underserved areas, as well as other populations,” Alderman said in a statement.

“People with resources, money, and transportation have the ability to travel to another state to receive the safe and legal care they need. For those who do not have those resources, including most adolescents, access to the health care they need is out of their reach. This reinforces the health disparities that exist across our country.”

Iffath A. Hoskins, president of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, denounced the court ruling that she described as “a direct blow to bodily autonomy, reproductive health, patient safety and health equity in the United States”

“This decision, which has been foreshadowed for many months, confirms that this is a dark and dangerous time for the women and doctors of America,” she said in a 

David J. Skorton, president and CEO of the Association of American Medical Colleges, said that leaving healthcare matters to the purview of individual states threatens the lives of patients.

“Everyone should be able to access comprehensive health care, including women of reproductive age,” Skowron said. “Restrictive state laws will severely limit a patient’s access to comprehensive reproductive health care, interfere in the patient-physician relationship, and override what is ultimately a clinician’s responsibility to provide the best medical care for every patient.”

In the wake of the high court ruling, the AMA said it will continue to fight laws preventing women from obtaining abortions.

"We will always have physicians’ backs and defend the practice of medicine, we will fight to protect the patient-physician relationship, and we will oppose any law or regulation that compromises or criminalizes patient access to safe, evidence-based medical care, including abortion," Resneck said in his statement. 

"As the health of millions of patients hangs in the balance, this is a fight we will not give up.”

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The American Medical Association said the ruling doesn’t end abortion, but safe access to abortion. The American Academy of Pediatrics said teens should be able to get reproductive health services, including abortion services.

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The Supreme Court sided with the federal government in a case involving billions of dollars in Medicare payments to safety net hospitals.

 released Friday, the court found the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services had the authority to revise Medicare payments to hospitals that serve an above-average portion of patients with lower incomes.

Hospitals with a high concentration of patients with lower incomes, often called “disproportionate share hospitals,” get bigger payments from Medicare. The government pays billions to these "DSH" hospitals.

Medicare utilizes a very complex formula in determining how it pays those safety net hospitals, and that policy has been revised over the years. It has also been routinely challenged by hospitals in the past.

In 2004, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services revised the formula for payments to those hospitals. Under the revised policy, CMS began counting the days a patient stays in the hospital after using up all of their Medicare benefits in its payment calculations.

Empire Health Foundation challenged the policy, arguing that the revised Medicare reimbursement short-changes safety net hospitals. Empire also argued that CMS didn’t give hospitals and health systems sufficient time to comment on the change in policy.

In a November analysis of the complex case for the 

, Allison K. Hoffman, a professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania, offered this projection on what would happen if the court sided with HHS, as it did.

“If HHS prevails, some hospitals will continue to receive lower DSH payments than they would have under the pre-2004 rule,” Hoffman wrote.  “Safety-net hospitals, which serve the most low-income Medicare beneficiaries who are entitled to SSI and have the fewest financial resources, may feel less impact.”

The ruling marked an unusual mix of the court’s more liberal and conservative judges. Justice Elena Kagan wrote the ruling, backed by Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Stephen Breyer, Clarence Thomas and Amy Coney Barrett. Justice Brett Kavanaugh authored the dissenting opinion. Chief Justice John Roberts, Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch.

In the majority opinion, Kagan wrote, “The point of the DSH provisions is not to pay hospitals the most money possible; it is instead to compensate hospitals for serving a disproportionate share of low-income patients.”

The court issued the ruling just before releasing its decision overturning Roe v. Wade, ending the constitutional right for abortion for Americans after nearly 50 years. 

Healthcare groups said they were deeply concerned

 about government interference in physician-patient relationships after a draft opinion was leaked last month.

This marks the second Supreme Court ruling affecting hospitals in a little over a week.

The court ruled in favor of hospitals in a highly-watched case last week. The justices unanimously struck down Medicare cuts to hospitals participating in 

, which offers discounts on some drugs to hospitals with a high percentage of low-income and disadvantaged patients.

Hospitals say losses are mounting as drug companies curb 340B discounts

In a narrow ruling, the court upheld the policy of the Department of Health and Human Services. The case involves billions of dollars in Medicare payments.

 Supreme Court sides with government on payments to safety net hospitals

Women account for the majority of Americans living with Alzheimer’s disease, but most women don’t understand they are at a higher risk of developing Alzheimer’s.

That’s a troubling takeaway of a survey by the Women’s Alzheimer’s Movement at Cleveland Clinic.

More than four out of five women (82%) said they were unaware that women had a greater likelihood of developing Alzheimer’s disease, the study found.

Roughly two-thirds of all Americans with Alzheimer’s are women, according to the 

. When a woman is 65 years old, she has an estimated one-in-five chance of developing Alzheimer’s disease, the association says.

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The survey also found that nearly three-quarters of women (73%) said they have not talked about their cognitive health with their healthcare providers. And 62% of women haven’t talked to their doctors about menopause or perimenopause, the transitional phase to menopause. Researchers said those conversations are vital, since Alzheimer’s disease is more common in women after menopause.

Maria Shriver, founder of the Women’s Alzheimer’s Movement and strategic partner for women's health and Alzheimer's at Cleveland Clinic, will be presenting the findings today at the Aspen Ideas: Health Festival. She will discuss the findings with Beri Ridgeway, Cleveland Clinic's chief of staff.

On the upside, most women (71%) said they have seen a doctor in the past year, and 58% of women say they are in good health. Still, more than half (56%) said they aren’t getting enough sleep and more than one-third (35%) said they often or always wake up some physical pain.

Around 40% of women said they have received treatment or a diagnosis for depression, anxiety and insomnia.

Shriver said in a statement that the findings of the survey are disturbing, but said it also points to ways to reach women and improve their health.

"The fact that women experience high levels of depression, anxiety and insomnia, but report being unaware that these are often symptoms of menopause means women may be going to the doctor, but not necessarily having the right conversations," Shriver said in the statement.

"The survey results are both a red flag about the state of women's health, but also an exciting opportunity to redirect the way that both healthcare providers and women think, talk and act on issues involving women's health—at every age and every stage of a woman's health span,” she added. “Women want the information and it's incumbent on us all to get it to them."

Only about one in nine women (12%) said they knew about a link between a loss of estrogen and a greater risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease. The Women’s Alzheimer’s Movement at Cleveland Clinic is studying that link.

The survey also found that of those who reported they weren’t in good health, most said they were struggling with depression (33%) and anxiety (30%). The vast majority of women who said they weren’t in good health were single mothers (69%).

Ridgeway said women’s health and their own experiences can play a role in developing Alzheimer’s disease.

"This survey illustrates the need to inform women of this link and empower them to start having conversations with their providers now so they can prioritize their brain health and improve overall health outcomes," she said in a statement.

Women will make positive steps to maintain or improve their health when they learn that lifestyle factors are linked to Alzheimer's, the survey found. Most said they would stay mentally and socially active and would work to maintain a healthy weight.

Obesity, low physical activity, depression and diabetes have all been linked to Alzheimer’s disease.

A survey by the Women’s Alzheimer’s Movement at Cleveland Clinic found women aren’t talking to doctors about possible risk factors. 

Most women unaware they’re at higher risk of Alzheimer’s disease

President Biden’s administration said it is going to “dramatically expand testing capacity” for monkeypox.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this week began sending monkeypox tests to five commercial laboratories: Aegis Science, Labcorp, Mayo Clinic Laboratories, Quest Diagnostics, and Sonic Healthcare. 

Healthcare providers will be able to use those labs for monkeypox tests in early July, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services says. Testing capacity should accelerate through the month, the department said in a news release.

The move comes amid growing concern about monkeypox and some criticism that the federal government hasn’t acted aggressively enough to address the threat. 

Through Wednesday, June 22, there were 156 reported monkeypox cases in the United States. Cases have been reported in 23 states and Washington, D.C.

The World Health Organization was expected to decide Thursday if monkeypox should be declared a global health emergency.

In addition to shipping tests to the large private laboratories, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said it has expanded capacity within the public health Laboratory Response Network. Public laboratories within the network can now process 8,000 tests per week, the department said.

“All Americans should be concerned about monkeypox cases. Thankfully we have right now the tools to fight and treat cases in America,” Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra said in a statement. “By dramatically expanding the number of testing locations throughout the country, we are making it possible for anyone who needs to be tested to do so.”

Since the start of 2022, monkeypox, normally found in Africa, has spread more widely. 

More than 3,000 suspected cases have been reported in 40 countries, 

 reports. Many of the reported cases involved men who have had sex with men, the news outlet reported. Most cases have been found in Europe, including nearly 800 in the United Kingdom, more than 500 in Germany and more than 500 in Spain.

, along with 66 fatalities, according to the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Monkeypox is a rare disease caused by infection with the monkeypox virus, federal officials say. It does not spread easily without close contact, and the CDC has said the threat to the U.S. population is low.

Vaccines are available to treat monkeypox. Symptoms of monkeypox are similar, but milder, than smallpox, which was declared eradicated in 1980.

Symptoms include fever, aches and a rash that appears like pimples or blisters, the CDC says.

The CDC drew scrutiny earlier this month when it advised travelers to consider wearing masks to protect themselves against monkeypox, and then later deleted that recommendation, 

The agency said it wanted to avoid confusing the public and stressed transmission typically occurs with close contact, but experts say airborne transmission, though rare, is possible, 

The health department is urging healthcare providers to consider testing patients for monkeypox if they display any rash “with clinical suspicion for monkeypox,” the agency said in a news release. They should also evaluate and consider testing patients with rashes that are similar to more common infections, such as herpes or syphilis.

Anyone with risk factors for monkeypox and a new rash should visit a healthcare provider, the health department said.

The CDC is sending tests to five large laboratories. More than 150 cases have been reported in the United States.

U.S. ramps up testing for monkeypox

The Department of Veterans Affairs has postponed the rollout of a new electronic health record system at some facilities until 2023, as the project has gained more criticism.

Federal watchdogs and lawmakers have faulted the VA for the management of the project, with a price tag of $16 billion.

 148 patients had been harmed due to problems with the new system. The news organization cited the findings of a draft report from the VA’s Office of Inspector General.

The VA has planned to install the new system at other facilities this year, but the department said it will hold off on some planned roll-outs until next year.

The department is postponing the launch of the new system at the Puget Sound VA Health Care System from August 2022 to March 2023, a VA spokesman said in an email to 

. The VA Portland Health Care System was slated to get the new system in November 2022, but that has been pushed back to April 2023.

“In evaluating Puget Sound’s and Portland’s readiness for deployment, VA determined the system hadn’t shown adequate reliability to support the current schedule,” the VA spokesman said.

The VA awarded a 10-year contract for the modernization project to Cerner in 2018, Earlier this month, 

Oracle completed its $28 billion acquisition of Cerner

Part of the reason for the delay in going live in the facilities is to allow Oracle Cerner time to make changes, the VA spokesman said.

The VA spokesman said there have been “unanticipated outages and system degradations from the onset of the new EHR rollout.” To address those issues, the VA has asked Oracle Center to put in a plan to regularly test the system and ensure its reliability, the spokesman said.

“The revised deployment schedule will enable Oracle Cerner to address these potential gaps in system reliability, particularly in the more complex sites that are upcoming, such as Puget Sound and Portland,” the VA spokesman said via email.

 that the company is putting more resources into the project and plans to ensure the modernization meets the VA’s expectations.

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The VA still plans to install the new record system at a veterans hospital in Boise, Idaho on July 23, the spokesman told 

The VA has said the new record system is essential to improving medical care for 9 million veterans.

The department launched the new electronic record system at the Mann-Grandstaff VA Medical Center, a veterans’ hospital in Spokane, Washington in 2020. But the new system has had issues. In March, the 

record system had to be taken offline temporarily

 after a problem affecting patient records, which delayed some services.

The new system went live at the Jonathan M. Wainwright Memorial VA Medical Center in Walla Walla, Wash. in March 2022. The VA launched the system at a third facility, the VA Central Ohio Healthcare System in Columbus, Ohio, in April.

Federal lawmakers have voiced repeated concerns over issues with the modernization project.

U.S. Sen. Patty Murray, a Democrat from Washington, welcomed the news that the VA is going to put the brakes on launching the system in other veterans’ hospitals.

“I’m glad I could convince VA to finally delay its rollout of what is clearly an inexcusably broken system in Washington state—its expansion into a larger more complex facility like VA Puget Sound Health Care System could have been catastrophic—and worse than what we’ve already seen in Spokane,” Murray said in a 

“However, I am still very focused on holding VA and Cerner accountable in getting this right for our veterans and the dedicated VA staff in Spokane and Walla Walla—this needs to get fixed, period.”

U.S. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, a Republican from Washington, said in a 

 she was “outraged” by the reports that patients have been harmed due to problems with the new system.

“I’ve had numerous conversations with both VA and Cerner leadership, in which I repeatedly raised concerns about ongoing problems with the system,” she said in the statement. “Time and time again, my concerns—and the valid concerns raised by veterans and providers—were dismissed.”

The inspector general’s draft report found that the new electronic record system failed to deliver more than 11,000 orders for healthcare services, and providers weren’t informed the orders were lost, the 

The lost orders delayed care and led to dozens of incidents of moderate harm to patients, and one instance of “major harm,” the news organization reported.

The draft report hasn’t been finalized and could be revised before publication, the 

 last month requiring the VA to provide regular updates to Congress on the electronic health record system. The bill, previously approved by the House of Representatives, was sent to President Biden.

Previous federal reports have identified problems with the VA’s new electronic record system and its management of the project.

​​The U.S. Government Accountability Office said in February the VA 

needs to address issues in the modernization

 that could affect patient safety, including errors in medication and allergy data in electronic records.

After initially awarding a 10-year, $10 billion contract to Cerner, the VA later revised the project’s cost to $16 billion. A 

 issued by the VA’s Inspector General in May 2021 said the VA could have underestimated the costs by as much as $2.6 billion.

The project was also hampered by the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.

The VA has said it expects the new health record system to be installed nationwide by 2028.

The department says the new system will connect the VA’s medical facilities with the Department of Defense and other providers to provide better access to health records and improve care for America’s veterans.

The Department of Veterans Affairs said some facilities won’t get the new system until next year. The delay comes amid reports of problems with the system harming patients at a veterans hospital in Washington state.

VA postponing rollout of new electronic health record system

Women appear to be significantly more susceptible to long COVID-19 syndrome, a new study suggests.

Researchers examined literature reviews of COVID-19 studies to examine the possibility of differences in susceptibility to long COVID by gender. Altogether, researchers examined studies involving 1.39 million patients.

“The likelihood of having long COVID syndrome was significantly greater among females,” the authors stated. The 

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Researchers examined differences in genders for COVID-related conditions or symptoms that emerged after the acute phase of the coronavirus had ended, and long COVID syndrome. The researchers defined long COVID as the persistence of symptoms or complications beyond 4 weeks of the onset of COVID-19.

Long COVID encompasses a wide variety of symptoms, including extreme fatigue, pulmonary fibrosis, myocarditis, kidney disease, diabetes, and problems sleeping, among others.

The study found women were much more likely than men to develop ENT, GI, neurological, psychiatric and dermatological complications. Men were more likely to experience renal and endocrine disorders, the authors wrote.

The researchers acknowledge the causes of long COVID remain unclear. Women have a faster immune response, which can often protect them from initial infection or more serious symptoms. However, women can be more susceptible to extended autoimmune related diseases, the authors note, and that could explain why long COVID appears to be more common in women.

Women work in some professions, such as nursing and teaching, where they have more contact with people and greater exposure to COVID-19, the authors note. Researchers added there may be gender-based gaps in access to care that could play a role in the development of the illness.

The authors called for much more research involving COVID-19 and the differences in how the disease affects men and women. They noted many studies didn’t include the impact of the disease by gender.

“The lack of studies reporting sex-disaggregated outcomes for COVID-19 speaks to the need for further, large-scale research that includes sex as an analytical variable and that reports data by sex,” the authors wrote.

Some health advocates have been pressing for more urgency in federal studies of long COVID.

U.S. Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., and Ed Markey, D-Mass., wrote a letter to the National Institutes of Health in April expressing 

their unhappiness about the pace of progress

 in studies of long COVID. Congress directed $1.15 billion to the NIH for studies of long COVID in 2020.

“We are concerned by reports that the agency has been slow to launch COVID research efforts and prioritized long COVID observational studies over investigations of possible treatments and therapeutics to help those suffering from its symptoms,” the senators wrote in the 

Studies have shown that some patients struggle with COVID-19 months after infection, and researchers are still trying to discover the long-term effects of the virus.

It’s still unclear how many Americans are struggling with long COVID, but federal officials estimate millions are affected. The 

 said in March that 7.7 million to 23 million Americans have developed long COVID.

More than half of those who had COVID-19 suffered some effects of long COVID six months later, according to a 

. The most common issues were functional mobility difficulties, pulmonary abnormalities, and mental health disorders.

 in February showed COVID-19 can pose long-term risks of cardiovascular problems. The study of more than 153,000 veterans with COVID-19 showed that after the initial 30 days of infection, those who have had COVID-19 have a greater risk for heart disease, stroke, and other complications.

A new study suggests women have significantly greater odds than men of developing complications after the initial infection. The authors called for additional research. 

Women more likely to develop long COVID

Federal officials and healthcare watchdog say hospitals have seen a decline in patient care due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but some providers are standing out, according to Healthgrades.

Healthgrades has announced the hospitals it has honored for providing the best patient experience in 2022. The website, which offers various rankings on hospitals and healthcare systems, released the list of honorees Tuesday, June 21.

The website examined more than 3,100 hospitals and selected 399 hospitals that scored high marks in taking care of patients.

Brad Bowman, Healthgrades’ chief medical officer and head of data science, noted that the pandemic has taxed hospitals and had an impact in patient care. Hospitals have dealt with staffing shortages and financial difficulties due to the pandemic.

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"It's no surprise that patient experience in our healthcare systems has suffered due to the COVID-19 pandemic, so it's exceptional that nearly 400 hospitals received top marks in patient experience," Bowman said in a statement. "We commend these hospitals for their ongoing commitment in keeping the patient experience front and center even through challenging times."

The website graded hospitals in 10 different measures of the patient experiences. Two hospitals - Hays Medical Center in Kansas and Penn Highlands Elk - emerged as the only two that improved in all 10 patient areas.

Nine hospitals earned better scores in nine patient measures, while 130 hospitals improved in five or more measures.

Hospitals were evaluated in these 10 categories:

The report comes amid growing concern about patient safety, particularly in the pandemic.

Patient groups oppose CMS plan to suppress reporting on patient safety measures

The reversal of gains in patient safety during the pandemic are clear and troubling, according to leaders with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Service and the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. In an 

, the federal officials pointed to an uptick in hospital-based infection seen in the months after the arrival of COVID-19.

Last month, the Office of Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued a 

 that found 25% of Medicare patients experienced harm in a hospital stay in 2018. The study indicated scant progress from a similar study done 10 years earlier.

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In its new report, Healthgrades said it evaluated 3,173 hospitals that submitted at least 75 patient experience surveys to the CMS. The website examined hospital admissions from July 2020 to March 2021. Hospitals in the bottom 20% for overall clinical quality weren’t considered for the honors.

Find the full list of hospitals honored by Healthgrades 

Earlier this year, Healthgrades released a new report looking at the hospitals and health systems that excelled during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. In that list, 

 for delivering high quality care to a high volume of COVID-19 patients.

Healthgrades releases state rankings, and gives four hospitals top honors

The organization evaluated more than 3,000 hospitals, but only a small portion were honored. Two hospitals improved in every category.

Healthgrades names top hospitals for patient experience in 2022

Cyberattacks have bedeviled health systems for years, and an emerging trend involves hackers posing as third-party vendors in an attempt to steal from companies.

It’s a phenomenon known as financial supply chain compromise, and it’s gaining in prevalence, according to a new 

 released Wednesday by Abnormal Security, a cybersecurity firm.

Business email compromise has been a growing problem, but in the past, many of the attacks involved bad actors impersonating company executives and asking a company’s workers to send money. That has become less effective as more workers realize the CEO or some other top executive probably isn’t asking their workers for money.

So attackers are now moving to impersonate vendors, which can be a more difficult problem for organizations to defend against, the report stated.

In January 2022, third-party impersonations surpassed “internal impersonations” (hackers posing as executives or other employees) for the first time, Abnormal Security says.

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This shift in strategy makes senses in some ways, according to the company. Organizations, including healthcare systems and hospitals, have many vendors. Walmart, for example, has more than 100,000 suppliers, Abnormal Security notes.

A new report by Abnormal Security sheds light on a growing trend of hackers impersonating third-party vendors to steal from companies.


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