Cyberattacks plague the health industry. Critics call feds’ response feeble and fractured

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Health care weathered more ransomware attacks last year than any other sector.

Health care weathered more ransomware attacks last year than any other sector, and that was before a debilitating February hack of payments manager Change Healthcare. Central Oregon Pathology Consultants has been in business for nearly 60 years, offering molecular testing and other diagnostic services east of the Cascade Range.ctice manager Julie Tracewell said.

The money isn’t there, said Mark Montgomery, senior director at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies’ Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation. “We’ve seen extremely incremental to almost nonexistent efforts” to invest more in security, he said. 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 agency The 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.

 

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