The US is trying to fix medical devices’ big cybersecurity problem

Medical devices are one major weak point in health care cybersecurity, and both Congress and the Food and Drug Administration took steps towards closing that gap this week —Congress with a proposed bill and the FDA with new draft guidelines for device makers on how they should build devices that are less likely to be hacked.

Devices like infusion pumps or imaging machines that are connected to the internet can be targets for …

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