Healthcare cybersecurity remains a challenge for healthcare leaders, as data breaches and ransomware attacks continue to trouble the sector.
The Change Healthcare cyberattack and other notable cyber events in recent years have exposed pressure points in the health IT ecosystem, leading experts to push healthcare stakeholders and policymakers to address the systemic risks that persist across the sector.
The Health Sector Coordinating Council (HSCC) cybersecurity working group (CWG) is aiming to track critical dependencies and identify vulnerabilities through a new risk mapping effort, which the HSCC CWG’s Executive Director Greg Garcia announced at HIMSS25 in Las Vegas in February.
HSCC’s risk mapping efforts represent a proactive approach to healthcare cybersecurity that consists of identifying and planning for risk rather than just responding to it. Given the complexity and interdependencies of any healthcare ecosystem, these efforts could help healthcare organizations truly understand their weak points and address them in a timely manner.
HSCC is taking a phased approach to its risk mapping efforts, starting with developing a series of maps that highlight key vulnerabilities….
