Washington, D.C., July 9, 2025 – Today, the Healthcare and Public Health Sector Coordinating Council (HSCC) testified on a panel to the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions to make recommendations on the direction of government and industry collaboration against ongoing cybersecurity threats and incidents impacting the health sector.
My statement today will offer what we believe the health sector and government need to do collaboratively to get ahead of ongoing cyber incidents and reduce their likelihood and impact.
Washington, D.C., April 16, 2024 – Today, the Healthcare and Public Health Sector Coordinating Council (HSCC) testified on a panel to the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health about the aftermath of the Change Healthcare cyber attack on the nation’s health systems, and how to prevent future disruptions of such magnitude.
Testimony of Greg Garcia, Executive Director of the Healthcare and Public Health Sector Coordinating Council Cybersecurity Working Group on “Examining Health Sector Cybersecurity in the Wake of the Change Healthcare Attack” before the United States House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee, on April 16, 2024.
The Healthcare and Public Health Sector Coordinating Council (HSCC) Cybersecurity Working Group today published updated recommendations for manufacturing and managing the security of medical devices for clinical practice.
The JSP2 offers important updates and a major refresh of the original JSP published in 2019. JSP is a total product lifecycle reference guide to developing, deploying and supporting cyber secure technology solutions in the health care environment. The JSP utilizes “secure-by-design” and “secure-by-default” principles throughout the product lifecycle of medical devices and health IT solutions. JSP 2.0 additionally addresses Goals #6 and #7 of HSCC’s five-year Health Industry Cybersecurity Strategic Plan (HIC-SP).
Wellness plan recommends implementing enterprise and industry-wide goals by 2029 on the imperative that Cyber Safety is Patient Safety.
