Hospitals are panicked, and Congress doesn't know what to do to make them feel better about cyberattacks.

A number of recent high profile hackings have raised alarms about the vulnerabilities of the nation's health care system to hackers.

A report by PBS at the end of March estimated that 113 million health records had been compromised in 2015. The nation's performance had improved during the first three months of 2016; only 3.5 million had been accessed.

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