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European Commission Publishes Action Plan on Cybersecurity of Hospitals and Healthcare Providers

Posted on January 21, 2025January 21, 2025 by Dissent

Mark Young & David Brazil of Covington and Burling write:

On 15 January 2025, the European Commission published an action plan on the cybersecurity of hospitals and healthcare providers (the “Action Plan”). The Action Plan sets out a series of EU-level actions that are intended to better protect the healthcare sector from cyber threats. The publication of the Action Plan follows a number of high-profile incidents in recent years where healthcare providers across the European Union have been the target of cyber attacks.

Whilst the Action Plan primarily focuses on healthcare providers including hospitals, clinics, care homes, rehabilitation centres and others, the plan identifies interdependence between those providers and the healthcare industry. Therefore, some of the measures proposed address risks affecting the broader healthcare supply chain and ecosystem, and will potentially have implications for pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry players as well as medical device manufacturers.

Read more at Inside Privacy.

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