HHS poised to award funding for cyber information-sharing initiative

The Department of Health and Human Services is scheduled soon to award grant funding to support the creation of a cybersecurity information-sharing organization for the healthcare and public health sector.

The department plans to award a $150,000 grant to one or two bidders to support the creation of an information sharing and analysis organization, or ISAO, for the sector, consistent with the cybersecurity information-sharing executive order that President Obama signed in February. If more than one bidder is selected, the...