From: GovInfoSecurity.com
Agencies’ Recommendations Take into Account Security
Federal regulators have released a long-awaited proposed framework for addressing safety risks involved in using healthcare information technology, including electronic health records and medical devices. The report takes into account that cybersecurity can play a role in ensuring the safe use of health IT.
Addressing privacy and security risks is the shared responsibility of vendors and other healthcare stakeholders, the report notes, downplaying the need for more regulations.
“Privacy and security issues are equally important across the lifecycle of the health IT products and across the different types of health IT functionality,” says Bakul Patel, a senior policy adviser at the FDA. “As we have said in the past, cybersecurity is a shared responsibility to assure that proper systems are in place to address privacy, security and safety of medical devices,” says Patel, who was the FDA’s point person in the development of the framework proposals.
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