FDA - Broadband Breakfast

Cybersecurity

Insulating Hardware From Software Crucial for Security of Devices, Say Silicon Flatirons Panelists

February 11, 2021 – Hardware components should be built separately from software to minimize the risk of cyberattacks, experts say. Technologies like artificial intelligence are increasingly being embedded into hardware, making it challenging to prevent and keep separated cyberattacks from component

Health

Early Coronavirus Testing Insufficient, Regulatory Barriers Too Strict, says CATO

June 9, 2020 — Diagnostic testing for the coronavirus was severely lacking when the virus reached the United States, and this could have been avoided by loosening regulatory barriers, said participants in a Cato Institute webinar Monday. The United States’ response to the global coronavirus threat

FTC

Threat of Scams Heightened in Age of Coronavirus, Say House Consumer Protection Subcommittee Members

May 11, 2020 — The coronavirus pandemic has given birth to all-too-predictable scams, agreed members of the House Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee and the Federal Trade Commission during a teleconference Monday. The conference, hosted by Subcommittee Chair Jan Schakowsky, D-Ill., and Ra

Spectrum

FCC FDA Joint Meeting Discusses Challenges, Successes of Broadband in Healthcare

WASHINGTON, July 26, 2010 – A panel of industry representatives from companies manufacturing new broadband-capable medical tools said they were looking for ways to have these technologies integrated into the current medical systems.

Broadband Updates

FCC, FDA Partner to Address Health Technologies Using Spectrum

WASHINGTON, July 26, 2010 – To plug it in and keep it beating, these two agencies must keep on meeting was the general theme of a panel discussion Monday convened by the Federal Communications Commission and Food and Drug Administration to address the current state of wireless health, and the lesson

Uncategorized

FCC and FDA Sign a Joint Memorandum Outlining Responsibilities for Wireless Healthcare

WASHINGTON, July 26, 2010 – Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski and Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Margaret Hamburg signed a statement of principles on wireless healthcare at a joint FCC/FDA meeting on wireless medical technology.

Broadband Data

FCC Net Neutrality Workshop Examines Importance of Transparency

WASHINGTON, January 21, 2010 – The Federal Communications Commission in a Tuesday workshop explored consumer choice, user control of their online experience and the importance of transparency. The agency’s fourth Open Internet Workshop on Consumers, Transparency and the Open Internet focused on the

Broadband's Impact

FDA Considers Drug Promotion Requirements for Broadband Age

WASHINGTON, November 15, 2009 – The Food and Drug Administration last week considered [http://www.fda.gov/AboutFDA/CentersOffices/CDER/ucm184250.htm] how regulated medical products such as prescription drugs for humans or animals should be promoted on the Internet and through the use of social media