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HIC-STAT identifies cyber risks and best practices associated with the use of telehealth and telemedicine, and summarizes the policy and regulatory underpinnings for telehealth/telemedicine cyber risk management. It is targeted for senior executives in healthcare and IT, telehealth service and product companies, and regulators.

MVCT is a toolkit written to provide specific tools to medical device manufacturers and software developers for creating cybersecurity vulnerability communications related to their products or services. This toolkit focuses on vulnerability communications directed to non-security professionals, including clinicians, patients, users, and other readers not familiar with cybersecurity and connected technologies. It is intended to help medical device manufacturers formulate and communicate vulnerability disclosures that all affected audiences, including nontechnical stakeholders, can understand.

The HIC-SCRiM is a toolkit for small to mid-sized healthcare institutions to better ensure the security of the products and services they procure through an enterprise supply chain cybersecurity risk management program.

The HIC-PIC is a white paper with guidance for how healthcare organizations can protect trade secrets, medical research and other innovation capital from cyber theft.

 

 

The Subcommittee on Health of the Committee on Energy and Commerce will held a hearing on Thursday, May 11, 2023 at 10:00 am in 2322 Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing was entitled, “Preparing for and Responding to Future Public Health Security Threats.” Erik Decker, Chairman of the Health Sector Coordinating Council’s Cyber Working Group provided testimony, available to read in its entirety.

Health delivery organizations across the United States have faced dramatic increases in cyber-attacks intended to cause disruption to the care continuum. In response to this growing threat, the HHS 405(d) Program conducted this Landscape Analysis, which identifies the vulnerabilities and threats most frequently resulting in damaging attacks against hospitals and assesses the hospitals’ known capabilities for preventing damaging cyber incidents.

As ransomware attacks increase against the health sector generally and small critical access and rural health systems specifically, the HSCC Cybersecurity Working Group offers these ideas, as alternatives or supplements to regulation, for government policies, programs, incentives and assistance to facilitate improved cybersecurity awareness and investment in the sector.