It is also an issue for suppliers to the healthcare industry, including technology suppliers, and a concern for the US federal government too, he said, adding: “It will be very interesting to see in 2025 which provisions of all of these bills comes to some reconciliation.”
Greg Garcia, executive director of the Health Sector Co-ordinating Council’s Cybersecurity Working Group, said in an email that his group looks forward to committee hearings and markups on the proposed bills, “if they get that far next year, to refine the legislation in ways that can offer meaningful healthcare cybersecurity and resilience.”
Under consideration, he said, should be strengthening of existing cybersecurity programs of the federal Health and Human Services Department (HHS), financial and technical support to under-served providers and regulatory accountability of third-party participation in the national critical healthcare infrastructure.
