MedCity News February 29, 2024
Increasing costs and healthcare cybersecurity worries have sparked calls for new laws. The bipartisan “Strengthening Cybersecurity in Health Care Act” by four senators would require the HHS to perform routine evaluations of its systems and deliver biannual reports on practices and progress.
While the world frets over legal and clinical perils of the growing use of artificial intelligence in healthcare, cybersecurity may have become the IT genie already out of the bottle.
Attacks on healthcare information systems are accelerating at an extraordinary pace, according to numerous reports. In one evaluation, a threat analyst for the cybersecurity firm Emsisoft found that cyberattacks on hospital systems last year nearly doubled from those of 2022, rising from 25 to 46. Those 46 systems...
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