Requirements & evidence
Health Industry Cybersecurity Practices
HICP 2023 is voluntary healthcare-sector guidance on common cyber threats, recommended practices, and patient-safety-oriented resilience for organizations of different sizes.
- Edition on record
- 2023 edition
- Issuing authority
- HHS 405(d) Program (opens in a new tab)
- Edition published
- Not stated by the authority
- Source last checked
Understand the scope
What the framework covers.
The library records this framework for healthcare, public health, across US. The issuing authority determines applicability; your assessment scope should identify the organization, systems, services, and edition being assessed.
Areas of requirement
- Threats
- Practices for small organizations
- Practices for medium and large organizations
- Patient safety
The library tracks the authority and edition. A normalized requirement catalog is not available for this framework, so a requirement count is not stated here.
Prepare with context
The evidence behind
the requirements.
Evidence needs to demonstrate how a requirement is met within the assessment scope. Keep the source requirement, collection context, responsible owner, review decision, and period of applicability together.
A framework-specific collection workflow has not been activated. The reference material on this page can inform scoping and preparation; it does not establish evidence collection or assessment readiness.
ControlFrame availability
Framework reference available
Authority and version facts, with a parsed public catalog when available; no tenant blueprint or executable evidence method is activated.
How availability is determined
Health Industry Cybersecurity Practices is tracked in the registry — authority, version ledger, verification — and nothing else is modelled for it yet. Import its catalog to begin.
Catalog status: Planned. Tracked metadata: we record the regime and its issuing authority for review. Registry presence does not mean automated monitoring is active. No control or requirement model is implemented.
Metadata only; HICP practices and sub-practices have not been normalized into a guidance profile.
Follow the source
Editions and transitions.
These are the editions recorded in the library, checked August 28, 2026. Confirm the applicable edition with the authority before beginning an assessment.
- 2023 editionCurrent edition on recordPublication date not recorded
Check the basis
Sources you can follow.
Verified against the issuing authority’s own publication. Source verification was recorded on August 28, 2026.
- HHS 405(d) Program (opens in a new tab)
Issuing authority and framework publication.
Catalog provenance and record details
Framework record: hicp-2023.
Source artifact: acquisition required.
Parsed catalog: Not ingested.
Control families as published: Threats · Practices for small organizations · Practices for medium and large organizations · Patient safety.
Record last updated: August 28, 2026.
Common questions
A closer look.
What is Health Industry Cybersecurity Practices?
HICP 2023 is voluntary healthcare-sector guidance on common cyber threats, recommended practices, and patient-safety-oriented resilience for organizations of different sizes.
Who does Health Industry Cybersecurity Practices apply to?
Health Industry Cybersecurity Practices applies to healthcare, public health, US, per HHS 405(d) Program.
What is the current version of Health Industry Cybersecurity Practices?
The current edition is 2023 edition, issued by HHS 405(d) Program. Source: https://hhscyber.hhs.gov/cornerstone-hicp.html.
What does an assessment under Health Industry Cybersecurity Practices require?
No control catalog has been ingested for Health Industry Cybersecurity Practices yet — the registry tracks it as planned (Tracked metadata: we record the regime and its issuing authority for review. Registry presence does not mean automated monitoring is active. No control or requirement model is implemented), so an assessment under this framework currently requires the authority's own catalog rather than a ControlFrame-parsed one.
At a glance
Health Industry Cybersecurity Practices
2023 edition
- Framework reference
- Authority and edition tracked
- Evidence preparation
- Framework reference available
- Source confidence
- Primary authority
A framework reference describes requirements. Evidence decisions belong to a scoped assessment and a named reviewer.
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