The watchdog for the Department of Health and Human Services concluded that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services did not consider risks to U.S. national security when it came to China gaining access to genomic data.

The HHS inspector general released a report last week, concluding the “NIH did not consider the risk presented by foreign principal investigators when permitting access to United States genomic data” and that Medicare and Medicaid’s enterprise risk management process “did not consider national security risks for any of CMS’s programs in accordance with federal requirements.”