Why Healthcare Security Matters

"After years of ransomware attacks, health-care defenses still fail

There are many reasons medical providers are so vulnerable to hackers. For one, they are willing to pay...

Federal officials and industry executives have known for years that the U.S. health-care system was one of the critical industries most vulnerable to hacking but failed to make the improvements that might have stopped attacks like the one that has crippled pharmacists and other medical providers for three weeks...

But with private sector lobbyists opposing new security requirements, Congress and the regulatory wheels have ground slowly, mainly promoting best practices that hospitals can — and do — choose to ignore..."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/03/19/cybersecurity-healthcare-hack-solutions/