Guidelines & Recommendations The Health Sector Coordinating Council (HSCC) Cybersecurity Working Group, “a platform for collaboration among healthcare industry leaders and the government for more than a decade to address the most pressing security and resiliency challenges to the healthcare sector,” has published its Health Industry AI Cybersecurity Governance Framework Implementation Guide. HSCC…
The U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), in collaboration with the Australian Signals Directorate’s Australian Cyber Security Centre and “other international and U.S. partners,” has released guidance for organizations on adopting agentic artificial intelligence (AI) systems. The guidance, titled “Careful Adoption of Agentic AI Services,” outlines “key security challenges…
The American College of Gastroenterology (ACG) has published a clinical guideline that presents a comprehensive approach to perioperative risk assessment and management in patients with cirrhosis – a population that it says presents “unique surgical risks.” The guideline emphasizes a multidisciplinary approach to preoperative evaluation, perioperative care, and postoperative follow-up.…
The American College of Surgeons (ACS) has released what it calls the first national framework that outlines measurable workplace standards for surgeons with the publication of “Developing Specialty-Specific Workplace Standards for Surgeons: A Framework to Support Sustainable Surgical Careers” in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons. ACS states…
A free clinical report published in Pediatrics, the journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) examines the role that pediatricians should play in evaluating and preparing patients and families for anesthesia and surgery. It focuses on two major areas of concern. The first is preparation and optimization of the…
