Medical devices — such as pacemakers, insulin pumps and MRI machines — are increasingly vulnerable to hacking. There’s no federal mandate for those devices to have cybersecurity protections. A government-backed coalition of hospitals and medical device manufacturers released a 53-page “joint security plan” outlining a slew of low-hanging fruit protections manufacturers should implement and hospitals should demand. The plan released by the Healthcare Sector Coordinating Council — a liaison on security issues between industry and government — won’t alone fix the cybersecurity problems plaguing the health-care industry. It effectively amounts to a voluntary do-list for manufacturers.

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From the Texas Trial Lawyers Association news release.