Politico May 21, 2024
WASHINGTON WATCH
The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health is investing in cybersecurity weeks after a devastating attack at the payment processor Change Healthcare slowed billing across the industry.
ARPA-H, the agency President Joe Biden created two years ago to invest in high-risk, high-reward research, plans to spend $50 million on proposals to develop IT tools to protect hospitals and health care systems.
ARPA-H announced the program, Universal Patching and Remediation for Autonomous Defense, on Monday.
“Health isn’t just something that impacts an individual, and ARPA-H is investing in ways to build stronger, healthier, and more resilient health care systems that can sustain themselves between crises,” ARPA-H Director Renee Wegrzyn said in a statement.
The goal, according to Andrew Carney,...
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