Security News > 2021 > October > Finding the right mix: Leveraging policy and incentives to improve healthcare cybersecurity

For the healthcare sector, the impact is far greater; cyberattacks can be a matter of life or death.

While investing in these digital transformation technologies, the healthcare sector has yet to put the corresponding resources into cybersecurity to protect them.

A HIMSS survey revealed that healthcare providers' cybersecurity budgets are only 6% or less of the total IT spend.

Given the increasing scale and scope of threats against the healthcare sector - a critical infrastructure with grave implications related to cybersecurity - strong preventative measures are needed.

More resources and incentives are needed to help healthcare organizations protect themselves from cyberattacks.

"It is vital that Congress and HHS identify a pathway for ensuring providers do not unduly shoulder the burden of protecting protected health information in situations outside their control," wrote leaders of the College of Healthcare Information Management and the Association of Executives in Healthcare Information Security in a letter to Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va. To that end, lawmakers and policymakers must dedicate funding to support risk-based planning, strategies, and cybersecurity upgrades for healthcare.

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