New bill would transform cybersecurity at Dept. of Health and Human Services
A bill aimed to reorganize and sharply focus cybersecurity at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) was reintroduced on Wednesday by Rep. Billy Long, R-Miss., and Rep. Doris Matsui, D-Calif. The HHS Cybersecurity Modernization Act comes in response to congressional hearings on the state of cybersecurity in the health care sector. A recent federal task force report on the state of hospital cybersecurity was starkly negative in its diagnosis. “Many organizations cannot afford to retain in-house information security personnel, or designate an information technology (IT) staff member with cybersecurity as a collateral duty,” the task force reported. “These organizations often lack the infrastructure to identify and track threats, the capacity to analyze and translate the threat data they receive into actionable information, and the capability to act on that information.” Critics say the federal effort toward cybersecurity in the health care sector lacks clear leadership and focus. The new legislation would grant the chief information […]
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