Joint Commission Issues Cybersecurity Advisory

Resource provides safety actions and resources to help managers and organizations prepare for and repel cybersecurity events

By Dan Hounsell, Senior Editor


Healthcare requires that managers establish a data safety culture that permeates an organization and its operations. The operational needs of a facility, as well as interoperability regulations, often prioritize speed and accessibility of information over information security. Many facilities also use a common network that integrates multiple aspects of clinical systems, medical systems, business systems, physical security and building management.

A new Quick Safety advisory from The Joint Commission, Organization-wide cybersecurity: Creating a culture of defense, provides safety actions and resources to help managers and organizations prepare for and repel a cybersecurity event.

Building a culture of cybersecurity requires shared awareness of cybersecurity threats, including evaluating the types of threats that exist, and incorporation of preventive strategies at all levels of a health care organization. The advisory recommends safety actions for managers in creating a culture of cybersecurity:

  • Create a culture of cybersecurity that is top down.
  • Make sensitivity to cybersecurity threats and organizational preparedness part of the way the organization performs its work.
  • Build a human firewall by requiring staff awareness of cybersecurity vulnerabilities at all levels of an organization.


October 25, 2021


Topic Area: Information Technology


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