News Photo by Mike Gonzalez District Health Department as Health Department Administrative Health Officer Dennis Bryan speaks about the organization's cybersecurity during the latest board meeting Tuesday at the Atlanta office, 12480 State St. Members of the 4th Board of Directors listen.
ALPENA — District Health Department No. 4 plans to focus on cybersecurity programs for health workers by hiring information technology (IT) experts to its team.
Dennis Bryan, the health department's administrative health director, spoke about the matter Tuesday at the latest board meeting in the Atlanta office, explaining that he wants to focus on this when finances and human resources are stable. did.
“There are three pillars,” Bryan said after the meeting. “Human resources have good staffing, competitive wages, good authority, sound policy, and really work together for the public health mission. And the driving force behind any business. is sustainable funding, which has become more stable these days…and the third pillar was IT, which is more efficient by using programs to collate data and create spreadsheets for data analysis. You will be able to work more efficiently and efficiently.
“We added more software,” Brian continued. “With that, there are several vulnerabilities in the world of cybersecurity that pose a threat to every business around the world. Now is the time to invest in employee training, gap analysis, and ensure all cybersecurity protections are in place.” Now is the time to make sure you have onboarding and offboarding capabilities in place.”
Bryan said the health department needs infrastructure protection due to the expansion of digital programs used in health care, as well as concerns about phishing, fraud and the potential for viruses in various technological situations. .
Brian said the health department is hiring for two new positions: IT supervisor and IT manager.
“Emails that come in can contain Trojan horse viruses that look very legitimate,” Brian said. “Commissioner (Brenda) Fournier has talked about doing month-to-month work and I would like to work on that as well. We have good candidates and others are interested as well. That means we'll likely be able to get a supervisor and then fill the manager position, but we're going to take it one step at a time and hopefully do it by the next board meeting. Meet your next IT professional.
The next board meeting will be held May 21 at 10 a.m. in the Commissioner's Office, Presque Isle Building, 106 E. Huron Ave., Rogers City.
in other business
Also on Tuesday was the District Health Board No. 4 board meeting.
∫ The agenda regarding the acquisition of the generator was moved to the next board meeting.
∫ Passed a motion to create a plan to repay the City Employees Retirement System debt.
∫ discussed various health department officials' reports reviewing the Bovine Tuberculosis Deer Vaccination Trial in Alpena, the potential contracting of social workers for the Hillman Wellness Program, and other topics.
∫ Updated management policies and procedures and environmental health policies and procedures.
