"UC San Diego Awarded $9.5 Million to Enhance Cybersecurity in Health Care"
The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) has awarded $9.5 million to researchers at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine as part of the DIGIHEALS initiative, which supports innovative research aimed at protecting the US healthcare system from malicious cyber threats. The new award, the first ARPA-H contract award for any campus of the University of California, will help the researchers develop better methods to prevent and mitigate ransomware attacks. Ransomware attacks impacting healthcare delivery have increased in frequency and sophistication. Since many aspects of modern healthcare delivery are computerized, these attacks pose a significant and direct threat to the lives of patients, in addition to their privacy. This article continues to discuss the health cybersecurity research efforts at the University of California San Diego.
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