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- HHS Releases Cybersecurity Strategy for Health Care Sector
On December 6, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a cybersecurity plan that will take the following steps to advance cyber resiliency for hospitals, patients and communities threatened by cyber-attacks:
- Establish voluntary cybersecurity performance goals for the healthcare sector.
- The HHS, with input from industry, will establish and publish voluntary sector-specific cybersecurity performance goals.
- Provide resources to incentivize and implement these cybersecurity practices.
- The HHS will work with Congress to obtain new authority and funding to support hospital investments in cybersecurity.
- Implement an HHS-wide strategy to support greater enforcement and accountability.
- The HHS will work with hospitals to meet sector-specific cybersecurity performance goals in the coming years.
- Expand and mature the one-stop shop within HHS for health care sector cybersecurity.
- The HHS will mature its “one-stop shop” cybersecurity support function for the health care sector within the Administration of Strategic Preparedness and Response to more effectively enable industry to access the support and services the federal government has to offer.