Hospital and Health Care Strategies to Address New Cybersecurity Challenges

Protected Health Information (PHI) held by Hospitals and Health Care Providers is at higher cybersecurity risk than ever. Dangerous criminals exploit information system weaknesses to reap rich rewards. Hospitals, Health Care Providers, and their patients suffer harm. A significant problem for providers is damage to their reputations by highly publicized data breaches and concurrent breaches of patient trust.

Government regulators are stiffening regulations and increasing enforcement. Successful class action lawsuits spurred private litigators to file skyrocketing numbers of data breach lawsuits.

This webinar reviews:

• Cybersecurity Threat Landscape Today
• Government Response
  • New Regulations and Guidance.
  • Increased Enforcement.
• Private Response – Serious Class Action Lawsuits
• Health Care Leader Strategies
  • Action Steps.
  • Readily Available Resources.

Proactive strategies and action steps empower Hospital and Healthcare leaders to address Cybersecurity threats and be ready to cope with government regulators and private lawsuits.

• New Cybersecurity Challenges in 2024 - Increased Public and Private Enforcement Due to Cybersecurity Breaches

  • OCR – Security Rule Revision and Mandatory Compliance Audits.
  • HHS – New Healthcare Cybersecurity Performance Goals.
  • NIST – New comprehensive HIPAA Security Rule Guidance coordinated with new NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0 (both pub. Feb. 2024).
  • Private Class Action Lawsuits – New and Urgent Threats.

• Strategies – What Health Care Leaders Should Do Now

  • Immediate Action Steps.
  • Intermediate and Long-Term Strategies.
  • Resources to Implement and Sustain Proactive Cybersecurity Defense.

Hospitals and Health Care Providers are under attack by Cyber-criminals and closely watched by government regulators and private litigators. You must be proactive to meet these challenges. Attend this webinar to review strategies and resources to address the challenges.

• Hospital and Health Care Provider Leaders
• Hospital and Health Care Provider Compliance Officials
• Hospital and Health Care Provider IT Leaders and Vendors
• In-house and outside legal counsel
• Health Care Compliance Consultants