The CE-IT Community, a joint effort of AAMI, ACCE, and HIMSS, will hold the first installment of its 2016 schedule of virtual town halls with a two-part series on cybersecurity. The free event will take place March 23 and 24 from 1 to 2 pm EST each day.
Read MoreThe American College of Clinical Engineering will cohost several sessions at the upcoming HIMSS 2016 conference, held February 29 to March 4, 2016, in Las Vegas. Major topics include how to enhance your cybersecurity posture and strategies to improve health IT safety and the quality of patient care.
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Rather than starting from scratch, you can use the HITRUST risk management framework to provide guidance for what you might need to change to ensure your common security framework provides adequate cybersecurity.
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The Health Information Trust Alliance (HITRUST) framework normalizes cybersecurity requirements without imposing a regulatory standard. It incorporates federal and state legislation and federal agency rules and guidance, as well as other industry frameworks. By meeting the HITRUST framework, you can better assess your facility’s compliance coverage.
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Over the next three issues, Networking will be presenting a series of columns to look at the issue of cybersecurity. Part 1 starts with President Obama’s 2013 Executive Order concerning cybersecurity and the resulting framework produced by the National Institute of Standards and Technology. The goal of the framework was to provide organizations with a cost-effective way to increase cybersecurity without adding to the various regulations and standards already in place.
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