The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) plans to tackle security issues related to medical devices and has released a plan of action it means to implement in the near future.

Broadly, plan is as follows:

• Establish a robust medical device patient safety net in the US
• Explore regulatory options to streamline and modernize timely implementation of postmarket mitigations;
• Spur innovation towards safer medical devices;
• Advance medical device cybersecurity; and
• Integrate CDRH’s premarket and postmarket offices and activities to advance the use of a Total
• Product Life Cycle (TPLC) approach to device safety.