Protecting Health IT Infrastructure with Government Resources.

Government provided cybersecurity resources aim to ensure organizations are fully protecting their health IT infrastructure. Electronic health data is never fully protected and with the growth of health IT infrastructure, data is more susceptible to cyber attacks. Cybersecurity is a large part of any network, cloud, or wireless infrastructure and is necessary for all deployments. Networks need to be protected against malicious attacks and service failure to keep protected health data safe, and quickly resume normal activity after an outage. Several government organizations have resources readily available for healthcare institutions. According to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), these resources are needed to mitigate cyber threats and strengthen cybersecurity in the HPH sector in order to address potential vulnerabilities. HHS provides a checklist that “outlines several hardware, software and educational items organizations should consider and implement to protect their digital infrastructure.”