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This InterAgency Board (IAB) publication establishes guidance for personal protective equipment selection and use, decontamination, detection, and medical countermeasures for first responders who may be exposed to opioids in the course of their occupational activities.
Hospitals are frequently targets for cyber and social engineering scams following disasters. Hospitals can mitigate their risk by recognizing and preventing cyber threats, phishing emails, ransomware attacks, and fraudulent fundraising campaigns.
Cybersecurity is integral to hospital emergency response efforts, as it protect sensitive information, maintains operational continuity, prevents disruptions, combats disinformation, secures critical infrastructure, and facilitates collaboration among stakeholders.
A helpful tool providing cybersecurity information and resources for health care organizations, tools to assist with gap analysis and state support systems, a mitigation checklist, and suggestions for where to report cyberattacks, as well as share information.
Ransomware is a serious and increasing threat to all government and private sector organizations, including critical infrastructure organizations.
2021 Virtual Disaster Conference
The Internet of Things (IoT) applications are growing rapidly with more healthcare organizations adopting the use of security cameras, drones, internet connected HVAC, and more. However, not all devices are designed with security in mind. Data breaches in the news are increasing in frequency.
2021 Virtual Disaster Conference
This presentation provides a unique national perspective on the rash of recent ransomware attacks, identify the groups behind these attacks, how hospitals and health systems have become victimized, and what can be done to prevent these attacks.
Healthcare & Public Health Sector Coordinating Councils
This Operational Continuity-Cyber Incident (OCCI) checklist provides a flexible template for operational staff and executive management to respond to and recover from an extended enterprise outage due to a serious cyber attack.
2023 Disaster Conference
UCLA Health developed an executive ransomware playbook to guide leaders on the initial detection, confirmation, institutional response priorities, and decision making following a cyber-attack. Learn about the unique threat a cybersecurity incident presents to a hospital and how to use those unique considerations in the development of a response plan.
2023 Disaster Conference
A review of lessons learned from development, logistical challenges, and exercise facilitation for a multi-hospital, corporate-wide drill. Includes improvement planning activities from our After-Action Report (AAR). Also, this presentation ties in our follow-up exercise (June 2023) and shares challenges and insights from this event.