{"id":217752,"date":"2026-02-26T13:45:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T18:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/26\/senate-committee-passes-health-care-cybersecurity-bill\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T14:10:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T19:10:12","slug":"senate-committee-passes-health-care-cybersecurity-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/26\/senate-committee-passes-health-care-cybersecurity-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate committee passes health care cybersecurity bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wvva.com\/2026\/02\/26\/bipartisan-bill-strengthens-health-care-cyber-defenses\/\">Senate committee passes health care cybersecurity bill<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wvva.com\/2026\/02\/26\/bipartisan-bill-strengthens-health-care-cyber-defenses\/\">https:\/\/www.wvva.com\/2026\/02\/26\/bipartisan-bill-strengthens-health-care-cyber-defenses\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-26 13:45:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.wvva.com\">www.wvva.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">WASHINGTON, D.C. (WVVA) &#8211; The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee passed the Health Care Cybersecurity and Resilience Act, bipartisan legislation introduced by U.S. Senator Mark Warner and Committee Chair Sen. Bill Cassidy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The bill aims to strengthen cyber defenses across the nation\u2019s health care system, protect patient data and support providers responding to cyberattacks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-2\">Cyberattacks on our health care system don\u2019t just compromise data \u2013 they can disrupt care, delay treatments, and put lives at risk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-2\">This bipartisan legislation takes important steps to strengthen our cyber defenses and ensure that providers \u2013 especially those in rural and underserved communities \u2013 have the tools they need to protect patients.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The legislation provides grants to improve cyberattack prevention, offers training on best practices, supports rural providers and requires better coordination between federal agencies. The bill now advances to the full Senate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WVVA. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wvva.com\/2026\/02\/26\/bipartisan-bill-strengthens-health-care-cyber-defenses\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate committee passes health care cybersecurity bill https:\/\/www.wvva.com\/2026\/02\/26\/bipartisan-bill-strengthens-health-care-cyber-defenses\/ Publish Date: 2026-02-26 13:45:00 Source Domain: www.wvva.com&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":217753,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/gray-wvva-prod.gtv-cdn.com\/resizer\/v2\/5CKJ6L3YOFBZTIEUUOKFYWLI24.jpeg?auth=717df882c47645d16fb353bcae60b1553e83abbf0af6b6dfb443ac97cacacea3&width=1200&height=600&smart=true","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217752"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217752"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217754,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217752\/revisions\/217754"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}