Healthcare cyberattacks mentioned in call to revive pandemic preparedness law

Healthcare cybersecurity should be essential to conversations in the country’s pandemic retort, as evidenced by the spate of cyberattacks launched against “hospital networks when they were at their most helpless,” commented Rep. Bill Johnson, R-Ohio.

“Cybersecurity is so vitally crucial to not only preventing ransomware attacks on hospital networks and securing the safety of patients’ personal information but also to our national security,” he stated. “Nobody’s on the frontlines with that problem more than hospitals, who are combating cyber threats day-to-day.”