70 YEARS OF ACTIVITY For Cancer Patients

Israel Cancer Association // Annual Report 2022

• Omri Zur , Oncology Unit, Sieff Medical Center, Zefat. • Gal Mazor , Oncology Unit, Soroka Medical center, Beer Sheva. • Yaron Erlich , Oncology Unit, Soroka Medical center, Beer Sheva.

Travel Fellowship for Physicians in Long-Term Advanced Studies in the United States Thanks to a generous donation from Ms. Linda Kaminow , a devoted friend of the Israel Cancer Association, the ICA helps fund long-term advanced studies in the United States for Israeli physicians in the field of oncology through the Claire and Emmanuel G. Rosenblatt Foundation .

IT Support

Every year, the Israel Cancer Association invests considerable resources on improving access to the information and services that it provides – for patients, survivors, and their families. The ICA IT Support Department, headed by David Moss-Rendell , is responsible for the numerous IT solutions that enable us to realize. Each year, the ICA is required to comply with information security standards ISO 27799 and ISO 27001 (Health Service Provider standard). Since 2014, the ICA has passed this testing successfully attesting to proper management and personal medical data confidentiality. This year too, the ICA has successfully passed this Standards Institute audit. During 2022, the ICA IT system was upgraded and suited to the increasing need for digital contact with patients, survivors and the general public.

The ICA has also transitioned to cloud backup systems in order to ensure work continuity should physical damage be sustained by the organization’s systems. The ICA continuously invests updating software and the operating systems of serves and endpoints. The ICA systems are monitored by a number of information security systems and companies in order to avoid hacking and leakage of confidential information by unauthorized entities. This year, a system upgrade was conducted in order to ensure comprehensive, overall information security on an organization level: Two ESX servers and a backup server were upgraded; the electronic mail improved to cyber-attacks; the software versions in the servers and communication equipment were also upgraded on a regular basis.

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