📌 The #NAPHS plan will work to address the gaps identified, ensuring #WesternBalkans can protect its people from disease threats, not only improving national #HealthSecurity, but also safeguarding travel and trade, and helping to protect economic and social development.

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⚙️Tools like #NAPHS bring health security into the 🔦 spotlight.

✅ They help countries assess their
capabilities, focus on critical activities and detail important steps to ensure #HealthSecurity for our citizens and communities.

#UnitedActionForBetterHealth
#WHOEurope
#WHEBalkanHub

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Session 2: Protecting People

#EU4Health projects linked to:
▶️#HealthSecurity Framework
▶️Pandemic preparedness
▶️Countermeasures to fight crises

NB. we need to improve the sharing of insights & data
🇪🇺#HealthUnion

(thanks @EU_Brain for the photo & @EC_HERA for chairing)

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_Health/status/1667105460342738946

Today, the EU #HealthSecurity Committee adopted the final update of the 🇪🇺 common list of COVID-19 antigen tests.

Throughout the pandemic, we worked with national experts to review applications and help citizens travel safely.

Read the news: https://europa.eu/!3XcGDY
#HealthUnion

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_Health/status/1658781218211602434

RT @OBShealth: Reminder 📢 The deadline to apply for this year's @OBSsummerschool is 31 May!

⚠️#HealthSecurity
📍Venice 🇮🇹
🗓️23-29 July 2023

✍️Apply now from any WHO/Europe member state: https://theobservatorysummerschool.org/

Organised by @OBShealth @RegioneVeneto @EU_Commission @EU_Health @WHO_Europe https://t.co/GxmZXHmtuR

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_Health/status/1653680476027011072

Strengthened cooperation against vaccine-preventable diseases is our shared priority

Joint meeting of 🇪🇺#HealthSecurity Committee and Public Health Expert Group sub-group on vaccination happening now, as part of European Immuniation Week (#EIW2023)

We are #UnitedInProtection

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_Health/status/1651864456463253505

RT @E_A_Karlsson
Great article by @DuckSwabber and Ian Barr at @TheDohertyInst . Animal, human, and environmental health require proactive measures to mitigate the risk of #avianflu. #OneHealth #healthsecurity #preparedness #earlywarning https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/bird-flu-human-cases-and-the-risk-to-australia

RT @Collective_hlth
"As important as health security is, the underlying concept driven by biomedical and technocratic reductionism falls short"

New @GHJournal article by @Rvandepas looking at the development of the concept of #HealthSecurity

https://globalizationandhealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12992-023-00915-y

Judge Rejects Recommendations to Drop Case in Medical Center Incident https://www.govinfosecurity.com/security-firm-coo-loses-bid-to-dismiss-cyberattack-case-a-21357 US prosecutors charged Vikas Singla with conducting a cyberattack that affected two hospitals of Gwinnett Medical Center. Marianne McGee #healthsecurity #lawenforcement #hacking

RT @OBShealth: Health Security⚠️
Observatory Venice Summer School, 23-29 July 2023

📢Applications now open for all WHO European Member States 👉https://theobservatorysummerschool.org/

@OBSsummerschool organised by @OBShealth @RegioneVeneto @EU_Commission @WHO_Europe #healthsecurity

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C05oa9ascQg

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_Health/status/1631206423081222145

May 11 sees end of limited HIPAA waiver program. https://www.bankinfosecurity.com/telehealth-privacy-concerns-to-be-in-spotlight-post-covid-19-a-21316 Privacy Attorney Adam Greene on HIPAA, Regulatory Issues Once Health Emergency Ends Marianne McGee #HIPPA #healthsecurity #cybersecurity

Physician Practices Network Hit by Russian-Backed Group https://www.inforisktoday.com/pennsylvania-health-system-ceo-confirms-blackcat-attack-a-21279 Initial analysis shows incident involved computer system used for clinically appropriate patient images for radiation oncology treatment & other sensitive information Marianne McGee #healthsecurity

2 separate hacking incidents, attackers stealing copies of protected health information https://www.inforisktoday.com/2-health-data-hacks-affect-more-than-1-million-individuals-a-21278 More than 1 million patients of a New Jersey healthcare system and an Alabama cardiovascular clinic affected Marianne McGee #healthsecurity #cybersecurity #databreach

What can Australia learn from the United States when establishing the new Centre for Disease Control? https://www.croakey.org/what-can-australia-learn-from-the-united-states-when-establishing-the-new-centre-for-disease-control/
#AusPol
#HealthReform
#HealthSecurity

Compromised Database With PHI on 2.1M People Had Not Been Used for a Decade https://www.inforisktoday.com/2-state-ags-slap-dna-testing-lab-hipaa-fines-for-hack-a-21240 Pennsylvania & Ohio slap DNA testing lab with HIPAA settlements totaling $400,000 following 2021 hack of a database that affected 2.1m. Marianne McGee #healthsecurity #databreach

US HHS Guidance After Attack Campaigns by Russian Nuisance Hackers https://www.govinfosecurity.com/feds-urge-health-sector-entities-to-guard-against-ddos-a-21212 After KillNet group temporarily disabled access to dozens of US hospital websites, authorities urge healthcare sector to stay vigilant. Marianne McGee #healthsecurity #ddos #cyberattack

1st Applicants Approved for US HHS' National TEFCA Network https://www.bankinfosecurity.com/6-networks-named-in-nationwide-health-data-exchange-effort-a-21202 6 tech providers commit to rigorous trust & security criteria for swapping patient information. - enabling true health data interoperability Marianne McGee #healthsecurity #privacy #cybersecurity

Hospital mergers don't just bring together clinics. They also combine underlying IT systems. https://www.bankinfosecurity.com/mergers-acquisitions-in-healthcare-security-risks-a-21126 One mostly overlooked consequence of mergers is potential for more breaches of patient data. Marianne McGee #healthsecurity #ransomware #mergersandacquisitions

RT @OBSsummerschool: SAVE THE DATE 📢 23-29 July 2023 📍 🇮🇹 #Healthsecurity – and how to increase it – is an important concern at European and global level. 
@OBSsummerschool 2023 will address what health security is & how it affects the different parts of health systems & health infrastructures.

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_Health/status/1622565290352451585

RT @OBShealth: SAVE THE DATE 📢 23-29 July 2023 📍 🇮🇹

#Healthsecurity – and how to increase it – is an important concern at European and global level.

@OBSsummerschool 2023 will address what health security is & how it affects the different parts of health systems & health infrastructures.

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_Health/status/1622565181896228866