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Are Efforts to Help Secure Rural Hospitals Doing Any Good?

Biden-Era Cyber Aid Programs Are Still Available, but the Future Is Uncertain

Ransomware operators realize most smaller organizations such rural hospitals, clinics and doctor practices don’t have the staff and cybersecurity resources needed to address common threats, said Denise Anderson, president and CEO of the Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center (Health-ISAC).

“It comes from the top. The CEOs have to be invested in cybersecurity because it’s easier to defend and spend money upfront with investments than have an attack and spend millions trying to fix it,” she said.

Over the past year or so, the federal government, tech vendors, industry groups such as the Health-ISAC and others have stepped up efforts to help these small and rural hospitals and clinics ease their cybersecurity struggles.

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