The cybersecurity regulatory, standards, and compliance landscape for healthcare organizations has evolved rapidly in recent decades. At the same time, cybersecurity risks are quickly outpacing responsive measures from both regulations and manufacturers. This is particularly true in the case of network-connected medical equipment technology, which represents a growing potential attack surface for health systems.
Health systems must simultaneously work towards two goals: maintaining compliance with a complex regulatory framework and establishing internal, trackable processes & standards for reducing cybersecurity risk. Building regulatory standards into a broader framework of risk management can drive a more actionable strategy that both better guarantees compliance and practically protects healthcare technology infrastructure.