UC San Diego Receives Major ARPA-H Award to Map Key Hospital Network Dependencies Critical to Care

The Center for Healthcare Cybersecurity will lead the PANACEA-H project, an unprecedented effort to monitor key healthcare technology dependencies that can impact patient safety and national security.

The University of California San Diego Center for Healthcare Cybersecurity has received an award from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) to lead the Preventative Assessment and Network Analysis of Cyber Essential Abilities for Health (PANACEA-H) project in collaboration with the American Hospital Association (AHA), the University of Maryland and the University of Minnesota. The award totals up to $29.9 million over a maximum of four years.

This award underscores UC San Diego's unique ability to bring together world-class medical expertise and advanced computer science to solve critical national security challenges,” said John M. Carethers, MD, vice chancellor for Health Sciences at UC San Diego. “The mapping tools developed by the Center for Healthcare Cybersecurity will transform how the entire health care sector defends itself, cementing UC San Diego’s role as a driving force behind the nation’s health IT infrastructure and patient safety.”