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A workshop scheduled for May 21–22 in Bethesda, Md, is intended to provide medical device manufacturers with industry best practices to achieve compliance and effectively assure medical device software safety.

On April 8, the FBI released an alert warning healthcare providers of a high level of risk for data security as adoption of electronic health records accelerates.

Health industry data are most often compromised by theft or loss, insider misuse, or miscellaneous error, according to a new report from Verizon security researchers released on April 22.

The importance for hospitals of developing effective cybersecurity protocols was underscored by the multiple news reports last week of a data breach at the University of Washington Medical Center. The breach resulted from an email containing malware.