Healthcare incident response
When an Incident Happens,
Know What Comes Next.
A cyberattack or privacy incident can disrupt patient care, expose sensitive information, and leave your team facing difficult decisions.
Download the Healthcare Security & Privacy Incident Response Checklist to help coordinate your response—from initial containment through recovery and post-incident review.
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A valuable resource for practice leaders, privacy and security officers, and the teams supporting them.
What’s inside
Be better prepared before
an incident happens.
Use the checklist alongside your organization’s Incident Response Procedure to clarify responsibilities and work through critical response activities.
- Identify, contain, and preserve
- Escalate to the appropriate parties
- Investigate and perform forensics
- Gather facts if an employee was involved
- Conduct the HIPAA breach assessment
- Manage reporting and notifications
- Coordinate communications
- Remediate and recover
- Complete the post-incident review
More than an
IT response.
A healthcare security or privacy incident can involve leadership, legal, compliance, communications, and patient-care teams. This checklist helps bring those responsibilities together so your organization can coordinate its response and track completed steps.
Prepare now. Respond with a plan.
Review the checklist with your team before an incident occurs. Identify responsibilities, discuss handoffs, and spot areas in your response procedure that need attention.
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