Risk Management Strategies in Healthcare: Educational Program Outline

This assignment presents an educational program outline focused on risk management within a healthcare setting. The program addresses the critical issue of cyber risk management, including malware, data breaches, and distributed denial of service attacks, which threaten patient privacy and system integrity. The rationale highlights the need for a robust cyber risk management strategy, citing the increasing frequency of cyberattacks and the legal responsibility of hospitals to protect patient data. The outline proposes the implementation of a cyber risk management strategy using the HITRUST common security framework, emphasizing the importance of skilled IT staff. It acknowledges challenges such as rapidly evolving cyber threats and the need for cultural shifts within the organization. The program's success is evaluated through streamlined inventory management, improved data flow monitoring, and compliance with regulations like HIPAA, HITECH, and the FDA. The outline also emphasizes the importance of leveraging emerging technologies to counter cyberattacks. The paper includes references to support the claims and recommendations.

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Introduction
There are very many issues that are facing the health industry about cyber security, and its
related issues. In this paper, cyber risk management shall be addressed which involves issues
about malware that lead to a compromised patient’s privacy and systems’ integrity. These issues
also involve distributed denial of services attacks, that lead to a disrupted ability of the facility in
patients’ care provision ,(Coburn, Leverett, & Woo, 2018). This topic is important to be
addressed to know the ways of ensuring provision of patient’s privacy and security to data in
hospitals for quality services in healthcare.
Rationale
The cyber risk management strategy is lacking because the hospital has been experiencing both
targeted and the untargeted attacks repeatedly, (Shackelford, 2014). Through ransomware,
patients’ information has been tampered with /breached by accessing the information system of
the hospital in various ways. Implementation of cyber risk management strategy shall minimize
cyber-attacks and put on the necessary precautions that makes it hard for the cyber attackers to
access any hospital’s information. This shall ensure the patient’s privacy and promote patient’s
rights of quality care as it is in the health compliance standards of the local, federal and state
government. The FDA regulates medical services where it imposes the standards for general
safety and effectiveness.
Support
According to “Hospitals face rising risk of sophisticated cyberattacks," (2020), Beazly breach
insights identified that hospitals are faced by attacks from cyber criminals which lead to 41% of

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data breaches reported to the hospital in 2019. One third of the breaches experienced were
related to malware attacks, and the other percentage (31%) led to accidental exposure. It is the
legal responsibility of hospitals to protect patient data that lead to safety in the place of work,
(Pozgar, 2012). Safe healthcare is created through quality services which is a professional
obligation and the state requirement towards all health practices.
Implementation strategy
Cyber risk implementation strategy can be implemented through HITRUST common security
Framework which is based on a management of security information in healthcare using the right
guidelines and standards to enhance risk management for all the Information networks used to
incorporate medical services in hospitals. This task can be performed by very skilled and
qualified staff on IT installation and maintenance, (Diogenes & Ozkaya, 2018).
Challenges
Challenges to be experienced to execute this strategy are about contending with the cyber threats
that are growing very fast and evolving daily, building a culture of cyber – aware, mobilizing all
team members to adequately respond to a data breach, and changing of individual’s attitudes.
Evaluation
When this program is implemented, its success shall lead to inventory management that is very
streamlined to reduce costs, and lead to a high operational efficiency, it shall enable proper
monitoring of data flow that in return shall lead to server provisioning currently and in the future.
The healthcare facility shall become organized and comply to regulations of HIPAA, HITECH,
and the FDA, (M, A, & Patrick, 2018).

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Opportunity
The organization should take the advantage of any emerging strong technology that counters
cyber-attack and install it with a lot of expertise and monitor it consecutively to avoid any further
cyber-attacks.

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References
Coburn, A., Leverett, E., & Woo, G. (2018). Solving Cyber Risk: Protecting Your Company and
Society. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.
Diogenes, Y., & Ozkaya, E. (2018). Cybersecurity - Attack and Defense Strategies:
Infrastructure Security with Red Team and Blue Team Tactics. MA.
Hospitals face rising risk of sophisticated cyberattacks. (2020). Retrieved from
https://www.healthcarefinancenews.com/news/hospitals-face-rising-risk-sophisticated-
cyberattacks
M, A. N., A, H. N., & Patrick, R. (2018). Data Science For Cyber-security. Toh Tuck Link,
MA: World Scientific.
Pozgar, G. D. (2012). Legal and Ethical Issues for Health Professionals. Burlington, MA: Jones
& Bartlett Publishers.
Shackelford, S. J. (2014). Managing Cyber Attacks in International Law, Business, and
Relations: In Search of Cyber Peace. Cambridge, NJ: Cambridge University Press.