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On April 16, 2024, the House Committee on Energy and Commerce held a bipartisan hearing on the issue of cyberattacks involving healthcare providers. The Committee called as witnesses cybersecurity professionals and...more
The year 2023 was a busy one for regulatory, compliance, and enforcement developments in the healthcare and life sciences industries, and 2024 promises to be even busier. We tapped MoFo’s Life Sciences + Healthcare Compliance...more
In response to a growing number of cyberattacks in the healthcare and life sciences industries, on Sept. 27, 2023, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released updated guidance regarding cybersecurity safety...more
Cybersecurity is a top concern for all industries, particularly for the pharmaceutical and medical device industries. These industries hold some of the most sensitive data and highly valuable technology, making them prime...more
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA or the Agency) has issued guidance concerning cybersecurity requirements for certain medical device premarket submissions (the Guidance). The Guidance outlines the implementation of...more
Amazon Sued for Not Telling New York Store Customers about Tracking Biometrics - “Thanks to a 2021 law, New York is the only major American city to require businesses to post signs letting customers know they’re tracking...more
Cyberattacks affecting internet-connected medical devices like insulin pumps, intracardiac defibrillators, mobile cardiac telemetry, pacemakers and intrathecal pain pumps have increased in recent years. And such attacks show...more
On November 14, 2022, under contract with the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the MITRE Corporation (MITRE), an organization that administers the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence, a federally...more
The last year has seen a multijurisdictional regulatory push for increased cybersecurity standards for medical devices. The new approaches, issued by regulatory authorities in the United States (U.S.), the United Kingdom (UK)...more
Earlier this week, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) published another notification alerting health care providers of increasing cyber threats to medical devices operating on unpatched or outdated devices. In its...more
The FBI issued a Private Industry Notification targeted to the health care sector on September 12, 2022, warning that it has “identified an increasing number of vulnerabilities posed by unpatched medical devices that run on...more
Report on Patient Privacy 22, no. 9 (September, 2022) - More than 92% of patients believe privacy is a right and their health data should not be available for purchase, according to a survey from the American Medical...more
The FDA has been continuing to work on protecting medical devices from the threats of cybersecurity. In April of this year, the Agency released the latest draft guidance addressing cybersecurity in the medical device...more
AHA Expresses Member Support for PATCH Act, Medical Device Security "In a letter addressed to Senators Bill Cassidy (R-LA) and Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), who first introduced the PATCH Act, the AHA said that the association and...more
Universities Share Lessons Learned from Ransomware Attacks "According to a recent Sophos poll of IT professionals, 44 percent of educational institutions suffered ransomware attacks in 2020, and 58 percent of those hit...more
The PATCH Act: Protecting Medical Devices from Cyber Attacks - In a previous issue of Decoded, we discussed the alarming fact that many medical devices, including those implanted in patients' bodies, are leaving the...more
House Subcommittee Debates Device Remanufacturing Definition, Sends User-Fees Bill to Next Stage "Proponents of the remanufacturing bill are looking to better distinguish between medical device remanufacturing, and...more
Report on Medicare Compliance 31 no. 18 (May 16, 2022) - In a version of the future that hopefully never comes, malware is able to remove malignant-looking tumors from CT or MRI scans before they were reviewed by...more
The Cryptocurrency Revolution and President Biden's Formal Recognition - Out of the ashes of the 2008 financial crisis, Bitcoin sprang up like an insurgency, targeting both the unbridled activity of large financial...more
Report on Patient Privacy 22, no. 3 (March, 2022) - Typically a “legacy” describes the lasting impact of an influential person or movement, most often in a positive sense. Not so with medical devices. When legacy is applied...more
Report on Patient Privacy 22, no. 1 (January, 2022) - As the COVID-19 pandemic enters its third year, real “security fatigue” with pandemic-related issues will combine with cybercriminals’ increasingly sophisticated...more
El Salvador Buys 200 Bitcoins as the Digital Currency Becomes Legal Tender - "El Salvador became the first country to adopt bitcoin as a national currency, kicking off a radical monetary experiment that could pose risks to...more
I. OVERVIEW - The U.S. Food & Drug Administration (“FDA”) has increased its focus on mitigating cybersecurity risks in medical device software. On June 24, 2021, the FDA issued two documents that are important not only...more
On October 28th, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Department of Health and Human Services, and the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency alerted hospital administrators and...more
Ransomware Attacks Predicted to Occur Every 11 Seconds in 2021 with a Cost of $20 Billion - Confirming what we are seeing in the field, cybersecurity firm Cybersecurity Ventures has predicted that, globally, businesses in...more