Full Committee Hearing Securing the Future of Health Care: Enhancing Cybersecurity and Protecting Americans’ Privacy

Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Senate Committee · July 9, 2025

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The Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee convened first to vote to favorably report a CDC nomination and then held a hearing on cybersecurity risks to health care. Witnesses from industry, trade groups, rural hospitals and academia warned that cyberattacks and concentrated third‑party vendors threaten patient care, urged modernization of HIPAA and federal privacy law, and asked for targeted federal support for rural hospitals. Senators also debated the broader impact of recently enacted reconciliation legislation on Medicaid, nursing homes and rural providers.

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