In July of this year, there will be new and revised emergency management (EM) standards and elements of performance (EP), applicable to hospitals and critical access hospitals. This comes after a comprehensive review and rewrites by The Joint Commission.
In this post, we have highlighted just a few of the changes that may be important to your organization.
Email phishing and ransomware attacks are two of the top cybersecurity threats to healthcare organizations. Download our Healthcare Cybersecurity Quick Guide for actionable steps you can take today to reduce the threat of phishing and ransomware.
Aligning cybersecurity governance with enterprise risk management and continuity planning steering committees is an essential step in improving your organization’s resiliency. Download this resource to help identify possible threats to your cybersecurity program and important mitigation practices to help improve your organizational resiliency.
A mature healthcare cybersecurity program is the shared responsibility of staff, service providers, and leaders. Normalizing cybersecurity into your daily practice requires a commitment to adopting behavioral changes through a meaningful education program. We have collected valuable resources to consider when designing your cybersecurity education and awareness campaign and created a convenient one-page reference guide.
During and after your leadership briefing you are going to want to reinforce that this is a process that will continue to mature over time as you continue to move through each stage of your continuity program. Try using at least one, or all of, the following 4 pre-existing methods accessible to you to help you effectively share resilience & continuity information across your healthcare organization.
Now that your Executive Sponsor has been established, you are going to work with them to identify leaders that will serve on the steering committee. This can also be an existing committee where your program becomes a sponsored new agenda item on a regular basis.
Download the linked customizable Steering Committee Charter Template to use in your organization when forming your program’s steering committee.
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