The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Wednesday named a slate of healthcare professionals from top providers and tech firms to its Health Care Industry Cybersecurity Task Force.
The Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015 tasked HHS with the creation of the panel, which is expected to come up with recommendations for helping safeguard the industry.
HHS, the Department of Homeland Security and the National Institute of Standards and Technology selected the task force members based on recommendations from a panel of subject matter experts.
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"While all industries continue to face a growing threat of attacks on their information systems, the size and scope of attacks on healthcare information systems have accelerated particularly rapidly in the past two years," HHS officials said in a statement.
The group will schedule four in-person meetings and through teleconferences until March 2017, when the task force will disband. It is expected to report its findings and recommendations before then.
The members are:
Theresa Meadows, RN, senior vice president and CIO, Cook Children's Health Care System.
George DeCesare, a lawyer, and senior vice president and chief technology risk officer, Kaiser Permanente Health Plan
Roy Mellinger, vice president of IT security, and chief information security officer Anthem
Mark Jarrett, MD, senior vice president and chief quality officer, Northwell Health, and professor of medicine Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine
Jacki Monson, a lawyer and chief privacy and information security officer, Sutter Health
Ram Ramadoss, vice president, CRP privacy and information security and EHR compliance oversight, Catholic Health Initiatives
Fred Trotter, data journalist, CareSet Systems
David Ting, co-founder and chief technology officer, Imprivata
Christine Sublett, CISO and head of compliance, Augmedix
David Finn, health information technology officer, Symantec
Michael McNeil, global product security and services officer, Philips Healthcare
Terry Rice, vice president, IT risk management and CISO, Merck & Co.
Joshua Corman, co-founder, I Am The Cavalry
Alissa Johnson, CISO, Stryker Corp.
Vito Sardanopoli, director of cyber security services and governance, Quest Diagnostics
Dan McWhorter, vice president and chief intelligence strategist, FireEye
Anura Fernando, principal engineer, medical and software systems interoperability at UL, LLC
Emery Csulak, CISO, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Laura Laybourn, director of stakeholder engagement and cyber infrastructure resilience, Office of Cybersecurity and Communications, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
The task force will also include a representative from NIST and one from the Federal Health IT Advisory Council, but they have not yet been named.
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