[IT Failures in Hospitals - Structures and Processes in Hospitals for Coping Cyber Attacks].

Clinics are, by definition, part of a country's critical infrastructure. In recent years, hospitals have increasingly become the target of cyber attacks, resulting in disruptions to their functionality lasting weeks to even months. According to the "National Strategy for the Protection of Critical Infrastructures (CRITIS Strategy)", clinics are legally obligated to take preventive measures against such incidents.

[Terror attacks : Recommendations for cooperation between police, hospitals and non-police security services].

Background: The risk of terrorist attacks in the Federal Republic of Germany is present and is currently increasing. Publicly funded acute care hospitals and their owners are involved in disaster control as part of their remit and are responsible for taking comprehensive precautions to ensure their operational capability in the event of disasters. This mandate must also be ensured in the event of terrorist attacks and amok incidents.

[IT Failures in Hospitals - Structures and Processes in Hospitals for Coping Cyber Attacks].

Clinics are, by definition, part of a country's critical infrastructure. In recent years, hospitals have increasingly become the target of cyber attacks, resulting in disruptions to their functionality lasting weeks to even months. According to the "National Strategy for the Protection of Critical Infrastructures (CRITIS Strategy)", clinics are legally obligated to take preventive measures against such incidents.

[Resilience against IT attacks in hospitals : Results from an exercise in a German university hospital].

Background: According to the legal definition healthcare systems and their components (e.g., hospitals) are part of the critical infrastructure of modern industrial nations.

[Clinical Treatment after Terrorist Attacks - Structures and Processes in Hospitals for terror-related Mass Casualty Incidents].

Due to several peculiarities the clinical treatment after terror-related mass casualty incidents (TerrorMASCAL) differs from handling a conventional MCI. For this reason, TerrorMASCAL situations should get attention as an own entity in hospitals emergency preparedness and response. Among other challenges hospitals surrounding the emergency area will have to deal with a large amount of non-triaged, non-treated and seriously harmed patients, some of them with unfamiliar and disfiguring injuries.