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.
2023 Disaster Conference
Cyberattacks against the health sector are proliferating, causing loss of data, connectivity, operations, reputation, money, and ultimately, patient safety. Attendees will learn about the Health Sector Coordinating Council and the many free best practice and guidance publications the Council has created for scalable cybersecurity preparedness and response programs.
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.
2024 Disaster Conference
This presentation covers best practices for integrating information security and emergency management professionals in planning and resiliency efforts against cyber threats posed against partners in the health care sector.
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.
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What’s happening: Microsoft and Google will provide free or low-cost cybersecurity services to rural hospitals nationwide to help them prevent cyberattacks.
What else to know: The American Hospital Association worked closely with the White House to secure these commitments from private sector partners.
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What’s happening: The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has released voluntary health care-specific cybersecurity performance goals (CPGs) to help organizations prioritize implementation of high-impact cybersecurity practices. What else to know: The CPGs include 10 essential and 10 enhanced goals. They are based on multiple cybersecurity frameworks and directly address common attack vectors...
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What’s happening: The Department of Health & Human Services’ (HHS) Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health launched a new program to enhance and automate cybersecurity for health care facilities. What else to know: The Universal PatchinG and Remediation for Autonomous DEfense (UPGRADE) program will invest more than $50 million to create tools for information technology teams...
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Registration is now open for CHA’s 2023 Disaster Planning Conference, which will feature a complete breakout track dedicated to cybersecurity in hospitals. A disaster can come in many different forms, and sometimes the disaster is a cybersecurity breach.
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The Hospital Quality Institute is reminding members that on June 14, it will host a webinar on cybersecurity with the America Hospital Association’s (AHA) John Riggi.