Healthcare IT News December 8, 2023
“The AHA cannot support proposals for mandatory cybersecurity requirements being levied on hospitals as if they were at fault for the success of hackers in perpetrating a crime,” says Rick Pollack, president and CEO of the American Hospital Association.
The American Hospital Association says the newly released U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ healthcare sector cybersecurity strategy paper, which outlines the agency’s “ongoing and planned steps to improve cyber resiliency and protect patient safety,” would have counterproductive consequences on hospitals after cyberattacks.
WHY IT MATTERS
In its strategy paper, HHS calls for new cybersecurity requirements for hospitals and outlines voluntary healthcare-specific cybersecurity performance goals.
HHS also said it would work with Congress to develop funding and incentives for domestic...
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