Patient safety organization ECRI Institute has launched a cyberattack gap analysis service for healthcare providers, focusing on threats to medical devices that interact with patients.
The organization is using internal experts to assess a hospital’s medical device inventory for cyber-exposures and to develop programs and policy to minimize the hospital’s vulnerability. This may include using reporting mechanisms like ECRI’s hazards and alerts system, as well as others like the National Healthcare-Information System and Analysis Center (NH-ISAC), says Robert Maliff, director of the applied solutions group at ECRI.
