American Hospital Association May 23, 2022
The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee last week held a hearing on how to strengthen cybersecurity in the health care and education sectors, from training and recruiting more cyber security experts to helping organizations share information. In her opening statement, Chairman Patty Murray, D-Wash., noted that 70% of hospitals surveyed in 2020 reported facing a significant cybersecurity incident.
“The fallout from these attacks can be devastating and wide-ranging,” she said. “Hospitals can get locked out of the electronic health records they need to understand a patient’s conditions, or software needed to schedule surgeries, track prescriptions, get lab results, and divert ambulances. These kinds of challenges don’t just cause major headaches, lawsuits, and expenses for hospitals. They put...
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