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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.
FBI Warns of Drastic Implication of Unpatched/Outdated Medical Devices
According to the FBI, more than half of all medical devices and Internet of Things devices used in hospitals including insulin pumps, defibrillators, pacemakers, mobile cardiac telemetry, etc. contain critical security vulnerabilities.
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…
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…
Importance Of Medical Alert Devices In 2021
Medical alert devices and systems have been a major part of elderly health and for good reason.
Fields of application of artificial intelligence
At present, it is difficult to find a field of work for people in which different mechanisms and…
Medtronic recalls insulin pump controllers over life-threatening flaws
Medtronic has recalled the remote controllers used with some of the company’s insulin pumps because of inherent vulnerabilities that could lead to injury or death.
Vulnerability allowed hackers to tamper medication in infusion pump
Braun Patched Faulty IV Pump After McAfee Discovered Vulnerability Allowing Medication Tampering.