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FDA Wants Medical Devices to Have Mandatory Built-In Update Mechanisms

  • April 19, 2018
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Jasper_The_Rasper
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This just sounds like common sense to me and I cannot understand why it is not done already.
 
19th April, 2018, By Catalin Cimpanu
 


 
The US Food & Drug Administration plans to ask Congress for more funding and regulatory powers to improve its approach towards medical device safety, including on the cybersecurity front.
 
An FDA document released this week reveals several of the FDA's plans, including the desire to force device makers to include mandatory update systems inside products for the purpose of delivering critical security patches.
 
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