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US government spending $50m on auto-patcher for hospital IT

Digital healthcare.

The United States government is offering $50 million to whoever can develop a new piece of technology that will better secure healthcare IT equipment.

Due to the sensitivity of the data it generates, the healthcare industry is one of the most attacked in the US, with ransomware actors constantly targeting hospitals and insurance companies. After identifying the problem two years ago, the Biden administration formed a new agency within the US government called Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, or ARPA-H. 

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