A top medical device security expert says a headline-grabbing report of alleged vulnerabilities in St. Jude Medical’s implantable heart devices was flawed and that the conclusions suggest a fundamental misunderstanding of the purported malfunction, according to the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation.
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Without a doubt, health care facilities house extremely sensitive data, including information about treatments, finances, and people. And should attackers breach such data, it could lead to very negative outcomes for the patients. All hope is not lost, however, thanks to tokenization, TokenEx CEO Alex Pezold says.
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The FDA has added new information security recommendations from the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation to its list of recognized standards less than a month after it was approved by the association’s Device Security Working Group. Expected to be publicly available this summer, AAMI TIR57 provides manufacturers with guidance on developing a cybersecurity risk management process for medical devices.
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Cyber-attacks on health care organizations are becoming increasingly more common. Here’s how HTM departments can avoid becoming the next victim.
Read MoreThe U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs and the global safety science organization Underwriters Laboratories (UL) have signed a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement Program (CRADA) for medical devices cybersecurity standards and certification approaches. As part of the Federal Technology Transfer Act of 1986, the CRADA mechanism was established to create teams to solve technological and industrial problems.
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