Cybersecurity Risks & Requirements for Healthcare
Understand cybersecurity risks, regulatory expectations, and industry best practices within the healthcare environment. This practical course explores NIAHO® requirements, recognized cybersecurity frameworks, risk management, security controls, and incident response.
Strengthen cybersecurity risk management across your healthcare organization
Cybersecurity is an important consideration for healthcare organizations responsible for protecting critical systems and patient information. This course helps healthcare professionals build an understanding of cybersecurity risks, applicable requirements, and approaches to managing security within the healthcare environment.
Participants will review relevant NIAHO® requirements and recognized cybersecurity frameworks, including NIST, while exploring risk management, security controls, incident response, and approaches to protecting healthcare systems and patient information.
The course provides healthcare teams with a practical foundation for understanding cybersecurity as an organizational risk and considering how appropriate controls and response planning can support stronger oversight.
What you’ll learn
Participants will develop an understanding of cybersecurity risks and requirements within healthcare settings. You will learn how to:
- Recognize cybersecurity risks relevant to healthcare organizations
- Understand key NIAHO® cybersecurity requirements
- Become familiar with recognized cybersecurity frameworks, including NIST
- Understand the role of risk management in addressing cybersecurity threats
- Explore security controls used to manage cybersecurity risks
- Understand considerations related to cybersecurity incident response
- Consider approaches to protecting critical healthcare systems and patient information
Who is this course for?
This course is appropriate for healthcare professionals whose responsibilities intersect with cybersecurity, regulatory compliance, risk management, operations, or the protection of healthcare systems and information.