Staying Ahead of ‘Enormous and Evolving’ Cyberthreats Requires End-to-End Collaboration

As a newly appointed member of the AAMI Board of Directors, you have mentioned how your work with MITA , H-ISAC, and AdvaMed can be leveraged to increase awareness of the vision and mission AAMI across a broader constituency in the healthcare domain. From your unique vantage point, what are some ways in which you these organizations can benefit by synchronizing their efforts? Great examples of how best to leverage the synchronization of organizations often are found within standards consensus. As a member of multiple industry forums on standards, I have the ability to bring common topics and information to these various groups in improving communication horizontally. In addition, organizational collaboration and synchronization are very helpful when attacking common challenges in need of standardization, such as our communication vehicles (e.g., the MDS2 [Manufacturer Disclosure Statement for Medical Device Security] form and the need to standardize the information inquiry in order to be both comprehensive and effective). Standardizing a common software bill of materials (SBoM) also is needed. We need to be holistic in our approach to standards and organizationally collaborative across the end-to-end ecosystem. Synchronization and collaboration across organizations will further our mutual goal to strengthen the industry.