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Healthcare is facing a security staffing crisis, HHS says

Healthcare IT News: The dearth of information security skills in healthcare is so drastic that nearly three out of four hospitals do not have even a designated security person, according to an imminent report that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is planning to publish.

Calling it a consistently “strategic pitfall in the cybersecurity environment,” the Atlantic Council’s Director of the Cyber Statecraft Initiative Josh Corman said that healthcare is simply used to doing more with budgets that are smaller than what they need.

Corman is part of the HHS’ Health Care Industry Cybersecurity Task Force. Created by the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015, the team is tasked with analyzing the state of healthcare security.

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