A new collaborative effort aims to advance “evidence-based security” for medical devices through the sharing of best practices, says Dale Nordenberg, M.D., leader of the Medical Device Innovation, Safety and Security consortium.”We believe that 2017 is the year that we truly hit a tipping point where the majority of … healthcare delivery systems and leading device manufacturers … have come to be aware of medical device cybersecurity risk potential. That is a very important first step,” Nordenberg says in an interview with Information Security Media Group.”But the next step is for stakeholders to collaborate to build an evidence base,” he says. That involves gathering the data “to truly understand what is happening at the point of care regarding medical devices” to size up the risks involved and then develop best practices for how to address them, he adds.

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