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The Government Should Invest Now in Healthcare Cybersecurity, says HSCC
Funding shortfalls and workforce shortages leave small, rural and resource-constrained healthcare providers especially vulnerable to ransomware attacks that disrupt care delivery. That's a reality that cannot be ignored, according to a new report prepared for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services by the Health Sector Coordinating Council's Cybersecurity Working Group.HSCC says the government and its partners must act quickly to address understaffed healthcare cyber programs by tweaking federal healthcare funding programs to cover critical cybersecurity expenditures, augmenting healthcare cybersecurity workforces and incentivizing cyber maturity.
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Nationally, cyberattacks that affect the delivery of patient care are all too common, with 36% of healthcare facilities reporting increased medical complications due to ransomware breaches, according to HSCC. Often, financially constrained providers may be the primary or only source of healthcare in their communities. If they must divert patients due to a ransomware shutdown, there may not be another facility close enough to safely send patients to.
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