House Energy and Commerce weighs need for establishing health sector cyber requirements with providing incentives

The House Energy and Commerce Committee sought to get a big picture of how the healthcare sector is implementing cyber best practices voluntarily and whether requirements or incentives are needed in the wake of the Change Healthcare cyber attack.

President Biden’s national cyber strategy culminated in the Department of Health and Human Services “issuing a four-step plan to strengthen our health care cyber defenses in December of last year,” health subcommittee Chair Brett Guthrie (R-KY) said in his opening...