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Increasing Momentum in Medical Device Security In 2021, an employee at Ireland’s public health and social services system—the Irish Health Services Executive (HSE)—opened a spreadsheet that was sent by email. The file contained malware. After two months of free access to the network, the attackers released ransomware into the system. As the BBC reports, …
Managing Legacy Technology Security To help address the cybersecurity risks of legacy devices used in healthcare environments, the Healthcare and Public Health Sector Coordinating Council (HSCC) Cybersecurity Working Group (CWG) has published “Health Industry Cybersecurity – Managing Legacy Technology Security (HIC-MaLTS).” The guide recommends cybersecurity strategies that manufacturers and health providers can implement for …
New Cybersecurity Standards for Medical Applications An increasing number of pacemakers, insulin pumps and other medical devices incorporate software and can also connect to the Internet, hospital networks or smartphones. In this way, diagnostic data can be transmitted and evaluated in real time using for instance artificial intelligence (AI), thus allowing anomalies to be …
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Prognosis: Medical Device Security Needs Improvement The Internet of Things (IoT) has brought many improvements to the healthcare industry. Connected devices make it easier to track hospital resources, transfer critical data and enable telemedicine, but the industry’s increased reliance on these tools raises new concerns. Most notably, device developers, hospitals and regulators have fallen …
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Five Most Common Compliance Problems Regulatory compliance in health care is a vital part of patient care. Regulations create frameworks for best practices among different healthcare organizations. But when it comes to compliance protocols, many healthcare organizations are operating suboptimal or inefficient systems. Two of the major issues in this regard are when healthcare …
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