Saturday, April 21, 2018
The device manufacturer acquired St. Jude Medical last year and has since been working to fix severe vulnerabilities found in its pacemakers. Abbott released its second and final round of planned cybersecurity updates to its pacemakers, programmers and remote monitoring systems to fix severe cybersecurity flaws in the devices.The patch will update the battery performance
[ Read More ]The Food and Drug Administration has issued plans – some of which will require Congressional approval – for enhancing the safety of medical devices. Those include several proposals for advancing cybersecurity, including imposing new requirements on device manufacturers.
[ Read More ]The FDA is requesting Congressional funding and authority to create a medical device cybersecurity response team, a public-private partnership that can respond to incidents and investigate attacks. The team would be part of a $70 million request to advance digital health technology.
[ Read More ]The LINX system uses a ring of titanium beads containing magnets that is placed around the lower esophagus to help prevent acid reflux.
[ Read More ]Many medical devices, especially older ones, were not designed with cybersecurity in mind, so healthcare organizations need to take special precautions to reduce risks, says security expert Justine Bone.For instance, when it comes to ID and access management controls, “authentication is being built into devices today, such that users of the devices and patient data
[ Read More ]Choosing the right phone can be the difference between increasing mobility or headaches. When it comes to mobile devices in healthcare, the perfect device does not yet exist.While industry is starting to catch on, popular smartphones or tablets for consumer use often dont offer the resilience or security that clinicians need for their day-to-day workflow,
[ Read More ]The exorbitant costs of nursing home and assisted living care are driving salesand innovationin the technology market. For many, the technology offers not just the tools they need to continue to live at home, but newfound confidence and connection with faraway family and friends.
[ Read More ]As CIOs and CISOs who walk the halls of healthcare institutions know all too well, the number of devices being enabled in the Internet of Things and Internet of Medical Things around us is exploding exponentially. With this explosion, complexities arise in security, data collection, storage, and especially lifecycle management. Devices have varying degrees of
[ Read More ]“The big issue comes with precision.” A new smartphone device allows people to easily measure their blood pressure without a cuff squeezing their arm. Its still too early to tell if the tech works accurately, but if it does, it could enable more people, especially in developing countries, to check if theyre at risk for
[ Read More ]When it comes to soft, assistive devices the wearer and the robot need to be in sync. But every human moves a bit differently and tailoring the robot’s parameters for an individual user is a time-consuming and inefficient process. Now, researchers have developed an efficient machine learning algorithm that can quickly tailor personalized control strategies
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