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Health Security Glossary
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This glossary defines core terms as they are used on HealthSecurity.tech. Definitions are educational synthesis and may be narrower than formal legal, regulatory, or technical definitions.
- Biosurveillance
- Systematic collection and interpretation of information that may reveal biological events affecting human, animal, plant, or environmental health.
- Continuity of care
- The ability to preserve safe, essential care functions through disruption and recovery.
- Cybersecurity
- Practices used to manage risk to systems, networks, devices, identities, data, and operations.
- Data integrity
- Confidence that information is accurate, complete, timely, attributable, and fit for use.
- Downtime
- A period when a system or service is unavailable or not trusted for normal use.
- Evidence confidence
- A separate rating of how strongly available sources support a claim or assessment.
- Health security
- Capabilities that prevent, detect, prepare for, respond to, and recover from threats to population health or essential health services.
- Medical device cybersecurity
- Lifecycle management of security risk that can affect device safety, effectiveness, availability, or workflow.
- Recovery
- Controlled restoration, validation, reconciliation, monitoring, and learning after disruption.
- Syndromic surveillance
- Use of timely, often pre-diagnostic symptom or encounter patterns for situational awareness.
- Threat
- A condition or event with the potential to cause harm or disruption.
- Vulnerability
- A weakness that could be exploited or contribute to failure, considered together with exposure and consequence.