The Health Sector Coordinating Council (HSCC), through its Cybersecurity Working Group, has released early previews of its upcoming 2026 guidance on managing artificial intelligence cybersecurity risks. Recognizing the complexity of AI, balancing its opportunities and challenges, the HSCC plans a phased rollout of resources focused on developing sound policies and best practices for responsible adoption.
The agency announced a series of one-page summaries outlining five HSCC Cybersecurity workstreams on AI, offering an early look at the best practices and white papers the Cybersecurity Working Group plans to release in 2026. The forthcoming publications will address education and enablement, cyber operations and defense, governance, secure-by-design principles, and third-party risk and supply chain transparency.
The initial foundational publication, ‘AI in Healthcare: 10 Terms You Need to Know,’ has been addressed in the current document.
Given the cybersecurity challenges and opportunities presented by AI, the HSCC CWG formed an AI Cybersecurity Task Group last October, composed of 115 healthcare organizations across the spectrum, to consider how to…
