The Patient Engagement Advisory Committee (Committee) to the Food and Drug Association (FDA) met recently to discuss cybersecurity in medical devices. Medical devices are increasingly connected to the internet, hospital networks, and other medical devices to provide features designed to improve healthcare and increase providers’ ability to treat patients. However, as medical devices become more
medical devices
Pacemakers at Risk for Remote Tampering
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in Cybersecurity
A new study by WhiteScope concludes that pacemakers from four manufacturers contain security weaknesses that expose them to remote tampering.
Pacemakers run on radio frequency and health care providers can adjust them to assist patients with heart abnormalities without having to undergo surgery. However, according to the study, the programmers who are adjusting the pacemakers…
Increased risk of ‘Medjacking’ calls for better security measures on medical devices
By Kathryn Rattigan on
Did you know that right now we have about 5 billion connected smart devices in use? Is it surprising that it is predicted that by 2020 that number will skyrocket to 25 billion? Of all these connected devices, a significant portion of these devices will be medical devices such as pacemakers, in-home monitoring systems and…