Strategic redundancy is the lesson health care still hasn't learned

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Strategic redundancy is the lesson health care still hasn't learned

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Two years after a major cyberattack, health care still relies on single-point claims routing. Without true redundancy, providers remain vulnerable to disruption

Rob Stuart

April 29, 2026•Rob Stuart

•1 minute read

Two years after a historic health care cyberattack exposed dangerous single-point failures in claims routing, the industry has largely rebuilt the same vulnerable structure.

It has been two years since one of the largest health care cyber breaches in history, and most of the industry response has centered on cybersecurity. That focus makes sense given how the event started, but it does not fully explain why the disruption spread as far and as fast as it did. The bigger issue was how the system is structured.

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