The Food and Drug Administration, or FDA, failed to implement agency-wide cybersecurity programs, which allowed insufficient defenses to exist on databases, including inadequate encryption on some files,…
The draft would update a guidance issued in 1997 — "a millennia ago,” as one expert joked.
Aug 10, 2016
Obama speaks on a precision medicine panel with The Atlantic’s Dr. James Hamblin (far left), Sonia Vallabh, doctoral student at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard (near right); Howard Look, president, CEO and founder of Tidepool; Dr. W. Marston Linehan, chief of the Urologic Oncology Branch, National Cancer Institute. (Whitney Blair Wyckoff/FedScoop)
With pharma companies in some cases spending $1 billion to develop a new drug, it's crucial that FDA protects the submissions it receives, said FDA Deputy CIO…