The FDA's New Digital Health Cyber Unit: What Would It Do?

September 27, 2018 CynergisTek, Inc.

If all goes according to plan, the Food and Drug Administration will launch in fiscal 2019 a new digital health "center of excellence" that includes a cybersecurity unit. The new unit would not only deal with cyber issues pertaining to new health technologies but also challenges facing older medical devices.

The FDA's $5.8 budget request for fiscal 2019 - which begins Oct. 1 - includes $70 million for the FDA to establish "a new paradigm for digital health technologies," according to the agency's budget justification document released earlier this year.

David Finn and Mac McMillan's comments are featured in this article.

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CynergisTek is a top-ranked cybersecurity consulting firm dedicated to serving the information assurance needs of healthcare. CynergisTek offers specialized services and solutions to help organizations achieve privacy, security, and compliance goals. The company has been recognized by KLAS in the 2016 and 2018 Cybersecurity reports as a top performing firm in healthcare cybersecurity, as well as the 2017 Best in KLAS winner for Cybersecurity Advisory Services.
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