Congress recently passed a spending bill that includes funding for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to provide technical assistance to the private sector for patient identification and matching.

As news of the WannaCry ransomware attack continues to escalate, we’d like to ask you to pause for a moment and think beyond securing your perimeter. Consider that there is, or will be, an impact to your systems and network; you may have avoided WannaCry and its variants, but one (or more) will get through in the future, and you WILL BE IMPACTED.