Educating patients about cybersecurity of connected medical devices shouldn’t be a scary conversation for health care providers. Connected medical devices are often an important part of patients’ and their families’ lives since they rely on such devices to stay safe and healthy.

Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released a new video, Tips for Clinicians - Keeping Your Patients’ Connected Medical Devices Safe to help clinicians discuss cybersecurity of connected medical devices with patients. These tips focus on communicating with patients and aim to increase clinician comfort in approaching this topic.