Healthcare associations have written to the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), responding to committee Chairman Lamar Alexander's (R-Tenn.) request for information to address healthcare's rising costs. One main area of focus for the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME), the Michigan-based association that represents more than 2,800 ClOs and other health IT senior leaders, was cybersecurity. CHIME noted that "we must ensure the implementation of stringent privacy and security standards," and the association is calling upon the committee to address the growing nature of cybersecurity threats to patient data and ensure that security is included in any policy recommendations.
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