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The Health and Human Services Department’s “current approach to healthcare cybersecurity — self-regulation and voluntary best practices — is woefully inadequate and has left the health care system vulnerable to criminals and foreign government hackers,” Sen. Ron Wyden , chair of the Senate Finance Committee,
Responsibility for the nation’s health cybersecurity is shared by three offices within two different agencies. The health department’s civil rights office is a sort of cop on the beat, monitoring whether hospitals and other health groups have adequate defenses for patient privacy and, if not, potentially fining them.
Nitin Natarajan, the cybersecurity agency’s deputy director, told KFF Health News that the list was just a draft. The agencyThe health department’s preparedness office is supposed to coordinate with Homeland Security’s cybersecurity agency and across the health department, but congressional staffers said the office’s efforts fall short.
The preparedness office has only a “small handful” of employees focused on cybersecurity, said Annie Fixler, director at the FDD’s Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation. Mazanec acknowledges the number isn’t high but hopes additional funding will allow for more hires.