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45,000 providers just discovered their EHR was breached.
And we still don’t know if millions of patient records were stolen.
CareCloud’s March 16 breach is a wake-up call that should terrify every healthcare executive. Hackers had access to one of their six EHR environments for over 8 hours, potentially exposing:
• Social Security numbers
• Insurance details
• Complete medical records
• Dates of birth
• Treatment histories
Here’s what makes this especially alarming:
CareCloud powers clinics, physician practices, and hospitals nationwide. The company contained the breach the same day, but here we are in late April and they still can’t confirm whether data was actually stolen.
This isn’t an isolated incident. We’ve had 4 major healthcare breaches just since mid-March:
→ CareCloud (March 16)
→ Hong Kong Hospital Authority (April 3, 56,000 patients)
→ Signature Healthcare ransomware (April 9)
→ ACN Healthcare ransomware (April 10)
The pattern is clear: EHRs are sitting ducks.
💡 The real question isn’t IF your system will be targeted, it’s WHEN.
Healthcare remains cyber criminals’ favorite target for a reason. Average breach costs hit $10.9 million in 2024, and 67% of healthcare organizations faced ransomware attacks.
Yet most systems still run on:
• Unpatched software
• Weak third-party vendor controls
• Minimal employee security training
• Legacy infrastructure from the 2000s
Every day we delay modernizing our security posture is another day we gamble with patient trust.
Think about it: Would you trust a bank that couldn’t tell you if your money was stolen 6 weeks after a breach?
Then why do we expect patients to trust us with something far more personal, their health data?
The CareCloud incident should be our industry’s turning point. Not another “lessons learned” memo that gets filed away.
Real action. Real investment. Real urgency.
Because the next breach could shut down your operations entirely. Just ask the hospitals that had to pause services after recent ransomware attacks.
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I help patients get the care they need earlier, preventing late-stage cancer.
That’s been the throughline across three companies and almost 20 years in healthcare. At ReferralMD, we fixed broken referral networks so patients didn’t fall through the cracks. At Oatmeal Health, it’s lung cancer: building the diagnostic and screening infrastructure so the 85% of cases caught too late get caught early instead.
Today as CEO of Oatmeal Health, I lead a team embedding AI into radiology workflows to turn routine lung CT scans into reimbursable cancer risk assessments. We partner with FQHCs to reach underserved communities, and with health systems and payers to make early detection economically sustainable. Think HeartFlow or Cleerly, but for lungs.
Between companies, I advised at Techstars and Plug and Play, mentoring founders building in digital health. That experience shaped how I think about what separates companies that ship from companies that stall: distribution, reimbursement, and clinical trust, not just technology.
I’m a CancerX alumnus, a 3x healthcare founder, and someone who believes the biggest problems in cancer aren’t scientific. They’re operational.
We’re hiring mission-driven builders at Oatmeal Health. If you want to work on something that matters, reach out.
When I’m not working, I’m traveling, mentoring, and keeping up with one very energetic husky. 🐾
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