Health Information Safe and Cybersecured for All

The Project HISC4ALL 'Äì Health Information Safe and Secured for All, consist of creating a FRAMEWORK involving the SME in Design a common and shared Information Security and Cybersecurity Framework for the healthcare sector, and its application process. The promoters are Instituto Nacional de Emerg√™ncia M√©dica (INEM)'ÄìPublic Institution from the Ministry of Health, responsible for the Integrated Medical Emergency System; Hospital Lus√≠adas, Private Hospital; and QUATTRO'ÄìPrivate SME, Health Sector Information Solutions Provider. Covid-19 pandemic made a sudden and urgent shifted of the patient care to citizens' homes, making the Healthcare entities more exposed to cyber-attacks. The Consortium saw the need in the market to incorporate a Information Security and Cybersecurity tool. It gives to the market a personalized service of monitoring, detection, and response to security incidents, operated by a team of specialists, based on a set of technological solutions, and supported by standards and frameworks to ensure the compliance of the service. The Consortium propose to create a new framework to assess the level of maturity of the different actors in the health sector involved in sharing data and information with and within each other. The purpose is to ensure that these exchanges take place between entities that meet certain minimum-security requirements and, to this end, comply with the highest levels of the maturity model to be developed. Outcomes will be: 1)Final Framework for Information Security and Cybersecurity; 2)Final Training, Awareness and Training program in the implementation and operation of the Framework; 3)Final Framework Application Process; 4)Framework Operation Process; 5)HISC4ALL application (proof of concept); 6)Website. The target Stakeholders are Hospital and Clinics; Institutions of the Public National Health Service; NHS); SMEs of the healthcare sector (small hospitals, clinics, dentists, pharmacies); Non-profit organizations (Firefighters).