Emerging Threats Community of Practice
- Brand Damage from Outside, Inside, and or Mixed Outside-Inside Threats including cyberterrorism.
- Workplace Violence including physical, verbal, sexual, or emotional harassment, bullying or harm to caregivers, staff, students, or patients.
- Active Shooter, Violent Intruder, and Deadly Force Incidentsincluding events causing physical harm to staff, caregivers, students, or patients.
- Domestic Terrorism such as organized attacks using chemical, biologic, radiologic, nuclear, and explosive weapons. Also weaponization of transportation & vehicles (CBRNET)
- Violent Acts Against Leadership where administrative, clinical, or governance leaders are specifically targeted by insiders or outsiders.
- Intentional Harm of Patients by caregivers who commit harmful acts against patients with or without enablers who do not report such harm.
- Unintentional Patient Harm through errors of omission from systems failures identified by mortality reviews such as diagnostic errors.
- Failure to Rescue in pre-hospital, hospital, and post-hospital continuity of care.
- Hospital Optimization & Flow with overcrowding & boarding/transfer issues.
- Readiness for Epidemics including preparedness for testing and volume surges.
- Sexual Misconduct including sexual harassment, abuse of power, and or harm to caregivers, staff, students, or patients.
- Racial and or Sexual Discrimination against those we serve including patients and their families and or those who serve in the organization.
- Cybersecurity Patient Records Issues including breach, theft, and contamination of medical records leading to patient and caregiver harm.
- Cybersecurity Operation Issues including breach, theft, and contamination of operational records, invasion of data systems, and ransom crimes.
- Theft of Intellectual Property by insiders, outsiders, or nation-states.
- Sabotage of service, information systems, clinical care, and property.
- Nation State Influence through academic espionage, financial conflicts of interest, or other means.
- Drug Diversion by staff including caregivers and pharmacists who divert medications for themselves or others.
- Conflict of Interest of staff including physicians, researchers, and administrators including disclosed and undisclosed financial relationships.
- Conflict of Interest of Governance including undisclosed financial relationships and disclosed financial relationships.
- Academic Fraud including fabrication, falsification, plagiarism, or dishonest grant documentation including applications and reports.
- Defamation or Unfair Press by investigative reporting or false whistleblowers.
- Burn-out of caregivers, leadership, and staff.
- Critical Drug and Supply Shortages such as I.V. fluids, medications, and key supplies.
- Regulatory Compliance Issues including new risk for non-compliance.