The regulations will require hospitals to develop incident response plans, adopt secure software design practices for in-house applications and install security technologies such as multifactor identification, among other preventive measures.
The rules are aligned with federal regulations and come after a string of New York hospitals have been hit with cyberattacks over the past year.
The draft guidance is slated to be released Nov. 13 and will be open for a 60-day public comment period.
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