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Advancing Medical Technology Requires More Medical Device Regulation
While countries like Japan, China, the United States, and the United Kingdom have acknowledged the importance of medical device regulation, worldwide recognition is still a long way to go.
What is ASR Technology and Where Can It Develop?
ASR Technology (aka Automated speech recognition) is a type of speech recognition technology that can be used to…
Why IoT Security in Healthcare is Crucial
Fact: Medical devices are often designed with convenience and functionality in mind, rather than security.
Cybersecurity Threats to Health Services: Why We Should Be Concerned
Hospitals and medical facilities are lucrative targets for hackers. It’s not enough anymore to keep software updated and…
Ransomware attack on US healthcare debt collector exposes 1.9m patient records
The company maintains that it was able to “detect and stop” the “sophisticated ransomware attack” on February 26,…
Japanese Healthcare Firm ‘Doctors Me’ Exposed Images of 12,000 Patients
In Total Doctors Me left 30GB worth of data exposed to the public due to a misconfigured Amazon…
Access:7 Supply Chain Flaws Impact ATMs, Medical, IoT devices
Three out of the seven flaws were rated as critical, while the remaining four were medium to high…
75% of Tested Smart Infusion Pumps Vulnerable to Hacking
As of 2020, about 80% of hospitals in the United States were using smart infusion pumps. Palo Alto…
Ghana govt agency exposed 700k citizens’ data in a database mess up
Ghana’s National Service Secretariate - NSS - exposed 55GB worth of citizens' data when an AWS S3 bucket used by the Secretariate suffered misconfiguration.
Importance Of Medical Alert Devices In 2021
Medical alert devices and systems have been a major part of elderly health and for good reason.