The Department of Health and Human Services' Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health has selected six projects to receive $50 million in funding under the Digital Health Security program to address cybersecurity threats to the U.S. health care system. The research projects will advance technologies to protect digital health software and hardware against cyber threats by enabling institutions to automate medical device patching, implement cyber reasoning techniques, employ cognitive health assistants, consolidate electronic health records and mitigate ransomware attacks.