Health Industry Cybersecurity Practices
Earlier
this year the Department
of Health and Human Services issued a report that in part detailed
practices hospitals can use to avoid cyberattacks against the health care
industry. The genesis of the report was the Cybersecurity Act of 2015 (CSA) and
more specifically, section 405(d). That section calls for “aligning health care
industry security approaches.” The forward to the report provides that
“industry and government came together under the auspices of the 405(d) task group…focused
on building a set of voluntary, consensus-based principles to…
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