This chapter explores the dangers of cybercrime and how to keep children's health and safety online. The risks of cybercrime and exposure to cybersecurity threats have grown with adolescent technology use. The study examines the dangers linked to social media sites, including cyberbullying, exposure to objectionable material, and unrealistic expectations, which may impact children's mental health and general well-being. Limiting children's use of social media and educating parents about potential cyber-psychological risks and public health hazards are just a few of the methods suggested in the piece to keep kids safe and healthy online. The study also emphasizes the need for parents, researchers, and others to take proactive steps to protect adolescents from the mental health risks and public health hazards associated with excessive online use. The methodology used in the chapter is a narrative review of the literature, consolidating and synthesizing the findings of various discussions' conclusions into one relevant and comprehensive debate.

Telemedicine and telehealth have emerged as transformative forces in modern healthcare, reshaping the landscape of reproductive health for both women and men. These technologies have ushered in a new era of healthcare delivery, offering innovative solutions that enhance access, convenience, and quality of care in reproductive health. This article explores the profound impact of telehealth and telemedicine on reproductive healthcare and underscores the critical importance of cybersecurity in safeguarding the integrity of these services.

The COVID-19 pandemic has presented healthcare institutions with unprecedented challenges in maintaining robust cybersecurity practices to safeguard patient data and protect critical healthcare operations. This chapter explores the ethical, organizational cultural, and leadership complexities hospitals face in cybersecurity during and after the pandemic. Ethical considerations encompass patient privacy, informed consent, and the responsible use of emerging technologies. Organizational cultural challenges involve balancing patient care priorities with cybersecurity efforts, fostering a cybersecurity-aware culture, and mitigating insider threats. Drawing insights from real-world experiences and expert opinions, this chapter sheds light on the multifaceted nature of hospital cybersecurity challenges amidst a global crisis. This chapter explores the nature of these challenges through a management consultant hospital intervention in a hospital that has experienced a significant cybersecurity breach.

Ethical leadership transforms and unites social systems around common purposes of ethicality leveraging organizational connectedness. Cybersecurity and the ethics around it create a variety of complexities. Often healthcare organizations do not openly disclose the extent and nature of cyber data thefts and breaches, which puts those whose information has been exposed at significant risk. It often is whistleblowing that leads to the public finding out the severity of the attack. This requires the need to understand the importance of ethical organizational cultures and the decision-making process that takes place when medical organizations have cybersecurity breaches. Leadership value systems mitigate subjectivity constituting ethical themes of moral character and virtues to advance organizational trust. Healthcare organizational cybersecurity leaders employ strategic foresight to forge connections with ethicality. Ethical leadership implores professional competence and exemplary service cultivating in social responsibility.

In the rapidly advancing landscape of biotechnology, laboratories, and healthcare research, the criticality of robust cybersecurity risk management techniques cannot be overstated. As these industries increasingly rely on interconnected technologies and digitized data for innovation and patient care, they become attractive targets for malicious cyber threats. This chapter underscores the paramount importance for biotechnology companies, laboratories, and healthcare research organizations to develop real-world and practical cybersecurity risk management techniques. By proactively addressing cybersecurity vulnerabilities, these entities can safeguard their sensitive data, protect intellectual property, ensure patient privacy, and maintain the trust of stakeholders. This chapter emphasizes the necessity of adopting effective cybersecurity strategies tailored to the specific needs of each sector, taking into account the dynamic threat landscape and the potential consequences of cyber incidents.

For a variety of reasons, cybercriminals view healthcare organizations as desirable targets to attack. With significant shortages of employees and managers in cybersecurity and technology management, the need for more professionals in the field have never been more important and necessary. Meeting these workforce development shortfalls and developing innovative business strategies requires leaders from all genders and backgrounds. To effectively meet the most challenging concerns related to organizational technology management strategy will require the contributions of women. This chapter explores the barriers, complexities, and innovative approaches related to developing more women in leadership roles in information technology and cybersecurity in healthcare organizations.

Cybersecurity is paramount in today’s rapidly evolving healthcare industry, particularly as supply chain management and logistics undergo digital transformation. This study examines the substantial threat posed by cybercrime to patient safety, data security, and operational efficiency within healthcare logistics and supply chain management. These risks can significantly impact an organization’s reputation and financial stability, necessitating vigilant detection and mitigation efforts by healthcare companies. As the primary defence against online threats, cybersecurity plays a pivotal role in preventing data breaches, cyberattacks, and other malicious activities that could have devastating consequences for the healthcare sector. Its core objective is to ensure the availability, confidentiality, and integrity of data, systems, and resources within the realm of healthcare supply chain management and logistics. Patient data protection stands out as a critical aspect of cybersecurity in this context. Healthcare logistics and supply chain management systems frequently handle sensitive patient data, encompassing billing details and medical histories. The compromise of such data places patient trust and the organization’s regulatory compliance at risk, potentially leading to identity theft, fraudulent claims, and privacy breaches. Furthermore, safeguarding the security of medical equipment is of paramount importance. With the increasing connectivity of these devices through the Internet of Things (IoT), they become more vulnerable to cyberattacks. Apart from jeopardizing patient safety, a breach in medical device security raises questions about the authenticity and reliability of healthcare products and services. Another pressing issue that healthcare institutions must address is unauthorised access to their systems. Cybercriminals persistently seek entry points into these systems to exploit vulnerabilities for illicit or profitable purposes. Robust cybersecurity measures are essential to thwarting unauthorised access and ensuring that only authorised individuals can access and modify sensitive medical data. Maintaining the accuracy of patient records is crucial for efficient supply chain management and healthcare logistics. Cyberattacks that manipulate or corrupt patient records can lead to medical errors, endangering patient safety. Consequently, cybersecurity measures must include safeguards to preserve the integrity and accuracy of these records. Beyond these immediate concerns, cybersecurity is instrumental in preventing disruptions to healthcare operations and services. Downtime resulting from cyberattacks can be catastrophic, impeding patient care and undermining the overall effectiveness of supply chain management and healthcare logistics. Cybersecurity safeguards continuous healthcare services by guaranteeing the security and accessibility of data and systems. Furthermore, cybersecurity plays a pivotal role in protecting the integrity, trust, and reputation of healthcare organizations. A cyberattack or data breach can tarnish an organization’s reputation and erode patient confidence. Such damage can have enduring repercussions, affecting an organization’s ability to attract clients, partners, and investors.

This study examines the nature of professionals being insider threats to their own organization, as well as the general increase in harder-to-detect threats coming from an ever-widening acceptance of third-party insiders by organizations that rely on them, such as those in the fields of biomedical sciences, synthetic biology, artificial intelligence, and food production engineering. The current and emerging literature on how individuals are motivated to engage in problematic workplace behaviors as a means of gaining their specific goal or need is examined in this chapter. Following that, the chapter articulates malicious cybersecurity and cyberbiosecurity insider threat indicators and then provides best practices for reducing the risk of these threats in organizations involved in food production engineering, synthetic biology, and artificial intelligence.

The planning fallacy is a specific bias pertaining to judgment errors that hamper the success cybersecurity business planning in healthcare organizations. The concepts explored include errors in human judgment, planning fallacy (cognitive bias), and how to mitigate this cognitive error. First, important concepts will be defined: cognitive bias, planning fallacy, and heuristic. Next, how cognitive biases contribute to human error in the decision-making process; third, the planning fallacy and how it pertains to both collaborative and complexity leadership theories will be analyzed. Finally, this chapter will conclude with possible implications for leaders to alleviate the consequences of the planning fallacy and provide insights for more effective approaches to business continuity planning for medical organizations.

According to the US Centers for Disease Control, Health disparities are preventable differences in the burden of disease, injury, violence, or opportunities to achieve optimal health experienced by socially disadvantaged populations and minority communities. COVID-19 has had a disproportionate impact on communities of color. Since 2020, communities of color in the US have experienced tremendous uncertainty, fear, and anger concerning trustworthy information about the origins, treatments, and prevention methods regarding COVID-19. This paper explores diversity and inclusion and its connection to health disparities through the kaleidoscope of COVID-19 and through the use of health theories and education solutions developed from the literature.

The increasing complexity of the United States healthcare system has compounded the likelihood of mistakes. As a result, the ability to learn smart and adaptive approaches to management have never been more critical. Medical errors put undue hardship on the economy resulting in the loss of billions of dollars. The current COVID-19 pandemic revealed gaps in public health strategies, medical treatments, comprehensive patient safety, and human resources strategy. Implementing human resources and performance management processes that promote safety, safe decision making, and reduce medical errors is critical. Adopting methods used by high-reliability organizations (HRO) may reduce medical errors and improve patient safety. Qualitative focus groups were used to collect data around creating organizational cultures focused on safety. This research aims to improve performance by providing healthcare leaders ability to learn how to smartly adapt with tools to enhance organizational culture, reduce medical errors, and improve patient safety in the age of COVID 19.

Women represent 50% of workers in the United States but only 28% of the employees at 51 of the top U.S. engineering and technology organizations. Engineering and technology firms have experienced significant challenges in creating more women-friendly cultures. According to Women Who Tech’s most recent survey, 75% of female employees have experienced offensive jokes, 54% experienced unwelcome physical contact, 51% had sexually-oriented comments directed at them, and 35% were propositioned for sex. The purpose of this project is to investigate the consequential impact of organizational dynamics bias and discrimination against women TECH 2022, which is a healthcare information technology and biotechnology consulting firm via a management consulting organizational development (OD) framework case study analysis.

Since the onset of COVID-19, food insecurity and access to healthy food have become significant public health problems. Inequalities in dietary behaviors have been unambiguously correlated to the food environment, including access to healthy and fresh foods. The Coronavirus Disease, also known as the COVID-19 pandemic, has led to significant fluctuations in the distribution, sale, purchase, preparation, and food consumption in the United States (U.S.). In addition, in the United States (U.S.), substantial socioeconomic and racial disparities exist in dietary behaviors. Limited access to fresh food, coupled with a greater prevalence of fast-food outlets in lower-income and minority neighborhoods, is partially responsible for sub-optimal eating patterns among residents. The purpose of this research is to highlight the factors and influences concerning childhood obesity, food education, community gardening, and healthy eating.

Medical labs, hospitals, doctor's offices, and medical devices face significant cyber risks. The insecurity of medical devices, including imaging hardware, threatens patient safety. Health organizations are rich with valuable data as well as weak with information security expertise, protocols, and infrastructure. It is critical for more health organizations to focus creating organizational cultures with processes that offer all employees to fully understand the nature of information security risks and have the ability to be active participants in the minimization and reporting of observable risks. This article will lay a foundation to establish techniques and practices for open door policies.

Healthcare systems in the United States have discovered the massive potential for digital technology to enhance clinical outcomes and change care delivery (Coventry & Branley, 2018). Technologies range from telemedicine technology providing care remotely, storing electronic health records (EHRs), and devices that deliver medication or monitor health (Coventry & Branley, 2018). There has been a 300% increase in cyberattacks in the healthcare industry (Janofsky, 2019). The increasing cost and threat to cybersecurity, especially amid a global pandemic, highlights organizations' immediate need to utilize system thinking to prevent continuous loss. This research discussion aims to use the literature's contextual review to examine healthcare cybersecurity organizational behavior through systems thinking lens to explore a holistic managerial thinking to better manage healthcare cybersecurity.

This analysis takes a deep dive into how a U.S. hospital, at risk of losing millions of dollars from a contract because of unfair hiring practices and discriminatory promotion practices among racial minorities. The hospital is also facing a class-action nursing discrimination lawsuit. The employee perception is that the organization is biased against African American, Native American, and Latino nurses with hiring, promotions, bonuses, training opportunities, and management job opportunities. These groups have representation numbers in their nursing workforce of less than 5 percent. The focus of the study is an exploration of the consequential impact of a non-diverse and inclusive workplace. An action research approach used included fact-finding interviews, barrier analysis, company policy assessments, content analysis of the problem in the literature, and recommendations based on the amalgamation of the triangulated data.

Commonly referenced as corporate citizenship or sustainability, the initial idea of corporate social responsibility (CSR) matured from the 1987 seminal Brundtland Report, which the United Nations is credited for spearheading. The steady progression of CSR highlights the need for organizations to coordinate the fulfillment of legal, philanthropic, moral, and financial obligations to ensure appropriate strategies toward sustainability initiatives and positive behaviors toward environments, the population, and monetary gain. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the causation by which organizations adapt green organizational cultures. Some findings suggest organizational cultures are forced to adopt new philosophies in a changing environment governed by corporate sustainability efforts. These green conceptual models transform human resources (HR) role in changing and creating organizational cultures that influence organizational strategies in ways that support sustainability and influence the organizational impact concerning climate change.

A 2016 article in the Nation outlined that in the United States the average Black family would need 228 years to build comparable wealth to the average white family. Today, achieving the dream of higher education has posed many threats to the Hispanic and African American communities. In order to achieve the dream, many minority students receive student loans to fund their higher education pursuits with hopes that future employment will afford repayment. However, most do not realize the risks. Student loan debt is a severe and mounting problem in the United States. In the United States, seven million student loan borrowers are now in default. Forty-five percent of college students obtain some sort of credit card debt. Lack of knowledge on financial literacy and student loan debt management is a serious issue. This article presents findings that support making financial literacy courses mandatory for college students just like Mathematics and English courses, especially at minority-serving colleges and universities.

Situations like Coronavirus (COVID-19), severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) coronaviruses, and the damaged caused by Hurricane Maria in September 2017 in Puerto Rico create complex health public health management logistics problems. Disasters and pandemics often demand logistics planning to involve large-scale transportation of medical aid in the form of personnel and supplies, specialized equipment, and personnel for search and rescue, food, shelter, and other commodities used in massive relief operations. The research suggests improvements in organizational culture, modernization of recruitment strategies, and enhancement of leadership and professional development as approaches to improve gender diversity in leadership roles in emergency public health supply chain and logistics management. This paper provides emergency and disaster public health supply chain and logistics management practitioners and scholars insight into the dynamics of gender disparity in leadership roles in public health supply chain management.

The need for integrity and reliability in the supply chain and logistics management operations has a well-established array of theoretical frameworks that guide organizations and managers in the field. However, what is missing is a comprehensive, established framework for logistics and supply chain cybersecurity. The emerging area of cyber-supply chain security continues to lack suitable models to help secure critical data and systems. In all industries and fields today, cybersecurity is no longer just an information technology issue. It is a business sustainability and business strategy issue. The human factors in the cyber-supply chain operations represent the actions or events when human error results in a successful hack or data breach. Today, protecting logistics and supply chain organizations from cyber and data security risks is no longer just an information technology employee function. Every organizational employee has a responsibility in the data protection process. Progressive organizations are ones that can create methods, policies, and approaches that encourage employees to play an active role in the information and cybersecurity process. This paper explores innovative approaches around open-door systems as a proactive data security and cybersecurity risk reduction organizational strategy. This research provides cyber-supply chain practitioners and scholars an array of concepts to help them understand and describe the dynamics of cyber-supply chain and logistics management data security vulnerabilities and opportunities for process improvements.