Cyber Practices

 

 

The Health Industry Cybersecurity Strategic Plan (HIC-SP) is a call to action for organizations throughout the healthcare ecosystem to implement foundational cybersecurity programs that address the operational, technological, and governance challenges posed by significant healthcare industry trends over the next five years.

The HIC-TCR is a tactical guide to advise health providers on tactical response activities for managing the cybersecurity threats that can occur during an emergency, such as the COVID-19 Pandemic.

The HIC-MISO identifies many of the cybersecurity information sharing organizations and their key services, as health organizations are beginning to understand the importance of cybersecurity information sharing and implementing information sharing systems.

Coordinated Healthcare Incident Response Plan: A preparedness and response template for disruptive cyber incidents involving health systems, hospitals and clinics. Provides guidance for maintaining clinical and business operations as the effects of a cyber attack threaten not only revenue but patient safety.

The HICP 2023 is an update to the 2019 HICP publication developed jointly by the HSCC and HHS. It provides executives, health care practitioners, providers, and health delivery organizations, such as hospitals, with best practices for managing cyberthreats to safeguard patient safety.

This Operational Continuity Cyber Incident (OCCI) checklist is intended to provide 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. Its suggested operational structures and tasks can be modified or refined according to an organization’s size, resources, complexity and capabilities.

The HIC-ISBP is a best practice guide for how healthcare organizations can set up and manage cyber threat information sharing programs for their enterprise.