Health Sector Statement of Support for Improving Cyber Safety to Protect Patient Safety
February 2024
The Undersigned Organizations Agree:
- The United States Healthcare and Public Health (Health) Sector continues to face dramatic increases in cyber-attacks, causing disruption to patient safety, the care continuum and the operation of supporting network-connected products and services;
- Cyber preparedness and resiliency of the Health Sector depend on a collective defense involving all Health subsectors and supporting infrastructure in the interconnected and interdependent ecosystem;
- Progress has been made in awareness and implementation of Health Sector guidance for cybersecurity risk management, but efforts must be accelerated in an All-of-Sector, national collective strategy; and
- The Health Sector Coordinating Council Joint Cybersecurity Working Group has developed a Five-Year Health Industry Cybersecurity Strategic Plan (HIC-SP) that presents a wellness plan for lifting Health Sector cybersecurity from “critical condition” to “stable condition” by 2029.
The undersigned therefore embrace the principles of the Health Industry Cybersecurity Strategic Plan to enhance our shared preparedness and resiliency on the imperative that “Cyber Safety is Patient Safety”
Statement of Support Signatories
As of July 12, 2024.
- Abbott
- Amador Health Center
- American Hospital Association
- American Nursing Informatics Association
- Armis
- Armstrong Risk Management LLC
- Ascension
- Ballad Health
- BD
- Bracco Medical Technologies/Acist Medical Systems
- BronxCare Health System
- Campbell County Health
- CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield
- ChristianaCare
- ClearDATA
- Clearwater
- CMR Naviscan Corporation
- Coastal Bend Regional Advisory Council
- College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME)
- CommHIT
- ComplyAssistant
- Connected Health Initiative
- CRISP Shared Services
- Critical Insight, Inc.
- CyberWise Strategic Consulting
- Designer Security LLC
- ECRI
- Exiger
- Faith Regional Health Services
- First Health Advisory
- Fitzgibbon Hospital
- Fortified Health Security
- Fresenius Medical Care
- Friend Family Health Center
- Health Care Service Corporation (HCSC)
- Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center
- HopeHealth, Inc.
- Integrated Womens Health
- Intermountain Health
- Kardon
- Konfidas
- Lakewood Health System
- LivaNova
- McLaren Health
- Medcrypt
- MedSleuth, Inc., subsidiary of DaVita, Inc.
- Medtronic
- MedWare Cyber LLC
- Merck & Co., Inc.
- Messer Financial Group
- Mom’s Meals
- Nave Security LLC
- Network PDF Cloud
- Northern Arizona Healthcare
- Northwell Health
- Nueropace
- OCHIN
- OMC Systems LLC
- Organon
- Overseer Security LLC
- PAHCOM | Professional Association of Health Care Office Management
- Premera Blue Cross
- Premier, Inc.
- Presbyterian Healthcare Services
- Rush University Medical Center
- Satori Consulting
- Scottsdale Institute
- Security First IT
- Shannon Lantzy LLC
- Siemens Healthineers
- Silver Cross Hospital
- Southern Illinois Healthcare
- Spero Health
- SSM Health
- St. Claire Regional Medical Center
- St. Joseph’s Health
- St. Luke’s Health System
- Sternum
- Temple Health
- Texas Health Resources
- This Week Health and the 229 Cyber/Risk Community
- University of Mississippi Medical Center
- University of Tennessee Medical Center