The Food and Drug Administration (FDA), along with many other medical industry leaders, has begun to address the potential problem of medical device hacks. Many new medical devices, such as insulin pumps, pacemakers and similar devices, work off of Wi-Fi signals that could be subjected to hackers. This could potentially mean that millions of people …
Hacked medical devices are emerging as a disturbing trend. Major companies such as Johnson & Johnson dealt with security issues in their insulin pumps. St. Jude also dealt with a serious breach that impacted pacemakers, defibrillators, and other medical equipment. Hackers are starting to find loopholes in security for embedded devices. Protecting medical instruments has …
The general public will now be able to access information about defective device recalls a little earlier than previous years. Food and Drug Administration officials announced that FDA device recall information will be posted on the FDA website more quickly than in the past beginning in 2017. Previously, device recall information was posted only after …
As technology continues to produce numerous devices, one field that has benefited greatly has been the medical profession. With treatment becoming more specialized in all facets of medicine, various types of medical devices are now being used to treat patients who may be suffering from anything from the common cold to cancer and other ailments. …
As recently as 20 to 30 years ago, manufacturers of medical equipment had one of the best marketing strategies to have been developed since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution: Sell a piece of equipment Wait 3 or 4 years Convince original customer that the equipment is now outdated Sell replacement Repeat steps 1 – …
Republican Representative Fred Upton of Michigan authored a bill that seeks to make grand changes to monies allotted for the medical research funding of mental health services. The legislation also reduces the processes new drugs and treatments must go through before they are approved for public consumption. The measure is considered a compromise between Democrats …
Every single day, technology makes incredible advances. That of course includes wearable medical device technology, as there have been breakthroughs in the way we live our daily lives even pertaining to our health. Medical wearable devices are among the fastest growing technologies within the health care field. Here are five of the top players in …
In October 2016, the Food and Drug Administration issues a report detailing a summary of inspection findings relating to 15 U.S. hospitals. Specifically, the report details failure of these medical centers in properly reporting medical device-related failure and adverse patient events. The release of this report is during a time when the manner in which hospitals …
Cyber thieves are dedicated to obtaining medical device data from the health care industry. They are now focused on attacking medical devices for sensitive information. A study was conducted by KPMG which showed that more than 80 percent of health care organizations had been victims of cyberthreats during the past few years. Several claim they …
We live in medically advanced times. Today we can save a child from anaphylactic shock – and even death – with the closest thing to a magic wand that humanity has ever seen. Forty years ago, that would have been unthinkable. The first epinephrine autoinjectors, now sold as EpiPens, were introduced in the 1980s, and they have …