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State budget health-care funding includes millions for cybersecurity

Gov. Kathy Hochul speaking in Syracuse on Feb. 6 (PHOTO CREDIT: DARREN MCGEE VIA HOCHUL FLICKR)

ALBANY, N.Y. — The new state budget provides a $1 billion, multi-year, health-care capital program to drive health-care investments, including $500 million for investments in technology and cybersecurity. That’s according to a May 3 announcement from the office of Gov. Kathy Hochul focused on spending plans to “create a stronger health-care system for the future.” […]

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That’s according to a May 3 announcement from the office of Gov. Kathy Hochul focused on spending plans to “create a stronger health-care system for the future.”

The budget supports the creation of a new health monitoring and surveillance system to inform “targeted and appropriate” responses to public-health crises and to drive broader health-care insight. The state will invest $28 million in the next two years to begin building a new platform that combines real-time health information with other key data like social and chronic condition risk factors.

The state also plans additional investments to increase electronic health record connectivity, Hochul’s office said.

The governor’s news release didn't provide any additional details on what the cybersecurity investments might entail.

The budget has an additional $22 billion multi-year investment to support the state’s health-care system, including an additional $1 billion in health-care capital funding for providers and expanded Medicaid benefits for more than 7.8 million low-income New Yorkers.

Eric Reinhardt