Aaron Maguregui on HHS Cybersecurity Revamp – 'Going to be added costs across the board'
Foley & Lardner LLP partner Aaron Maguregui assessed the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) proposed overhaul of its cybersecurity rules in the Bloomberg Law article, “Health Supply-Chain Hacks Targeted by HHS Cybersecurity Rule.”
“There’s going to be added costs across the board, whether that be with the smaller, solo practitioners, or that be the larger health systems,” Maguregui explained.
The notice of proposed rulemaking aims to enact strict compliance requirements across the health care ecosystem. Maguregui noted that some organizations that will be affected are “very early in their journey.”
“Some of them are startups. Some of these are new entrants into the health care ecosystem,” he continued. “They’re going to have an uphill battle to comply with these new requirements.”
Maguregui added that the proposed update “is really an attempt to quash the ongoing and continued explosion of cybersecurity events.”
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