Health care device manufacturers may see tighter regulations to close security risks for premarket equipment designs, SC Magazine reports. New regulations within the $1.7 billion U.S. government’s omnibus spending package would establish requirements for medical device security, most which are part of the Protecting and Transforming Cyber Healthcare already backed by health care stakeholders. A major element of the omnibus package is $5 million earmarked for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to enforce the requirement that all new medical devices developed “are designed with security in mind.”
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