News Summary

• Health systems should treat technology failures as a public-health threat with direct and measurable effects on patient care.
• To prepare, organizations need real-time monitoring, specialty-specific playbooks, and incident structures that bring IT and clinical leaders together.
• The Center for Healthcare Cybersecurity frames cyber incidents and other digital failures as clinical safety events whose impacts ripple across a region, not just the affected hospital.
• The team is producing downtime procedures tailored to specialties and subspecialties, recognizing that what a cardiologist needs during a multi-week outage differs from the needs of hematology-oncology, surgery, or anesthesiology.