Healthcare Innovation May 22, 2024
UPGRADE program will address vulnerabilities in healthcare and data security.
The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H), a Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) agency, announced in a news release on May 20 the launch of the Universal PatchinG and Remediation for Autonomous DEfence (UPGRADE) program. This effort will invest over $50 million in tool creation for cybersecurity in healthcare systems.
According to the press release, UPGRADE will “enable proactive evaluation of potential vulnerabilities by probing models of digital hospital environments for weaknesses in software.” Once a threat is identified, a patch can be tested and implemented with minimum interruption.
“With UPGRADE, we want to reduce the effort it takes to secure hospital equipment and guarantee that devices...
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