In 2018, the global medical device and clinical asset market was worth approximately $8.98 billion. By 2025, it’s estimated that it will be worth $61.35 billion. Hospitals, on average, spend 11-13% of their annual budget on medical devices and clinical assets.
In 2008, Nema (the National Electrical Manufacturers Association), together with HIMSS (Health Information and Management Systems Society) and a number of other security experts and government agencies, produced a short document template for manufacturers to use in order to describe the vital security properties ...
In the last several years, data breaches and cyber attacks on healthcare organizations have been in the news with alarming frequency.
This article is the final installment of a three-part series. We've already examined how those traits and trends converged around the principle of agility. Now, we'll discuss how the push for greater agility has given way to a broader "DevOps-ification".
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This article is the final installment of a three-part series. We've already examined how those traits and trends converged around the principle of agility. Now, we'll discuss how the push for...
"When wireless is perfectly applied, the whole earth will be converted into a huge brain, which in fact it is, all things being particles of a real and rhythmic whole.”
Machines are indispensable, yet imperfect. They work fine one day and break down the next. What’s more, even if the machine remains in essentially the same working order, you’ll still need to...
On August 13, 2019 Microsoft utilized “Patch Tuesday” to release 36 new CVEs. Of those vulnerabilities, four stand out for their striking similarity to the BlueKeep vulnerability that sent shock...
On July 29th, 2019, eleven vulnerabilities affecting the “VxWorks” Real Time Operating System (RTOS) were publicly disclosed. Since these vulnerabilities were all reported by the same source and...
Biomedical engineers are the unseen force behind some of modern medicine's greatest achievements. Biomedical engineers are at the forefront of exciting research and they are staples of day-to-day...
HDOs occupy a unique position: on the one hand, their focus is on patient care, and their success is measured by health outcomes. On the other hand, they are businesses, with investors,...
For the first time, on July 9, 2019, ICS-CERT disclosed a vulnerability specifically impacting anesthesia machines. If exploited, the vulnerability would allow an attacker to silence alarms, alter...
On June 18, 2019, Netflix researchers, together with MITRE, issued an advisory containing four vulnerabilities relating to how Linux handles TCP Selective-Acknowledgement (SACK) at the kernel...
At one point early on in the beloved C. S. Lewis children’s novel, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Mr. Tumnus sets the scene, intimating the stakes involved and explaining his own timidity,...
The climate for healthcare organizations is a challenging one, with healthcare costs expected to rise by 6.5% over the next year. Between tighter compliance regulations, increased competition, and
On May 14, 2019, Microsoft published an advisory for a newly discovered remote code execution vulnerability. Given the identifier CVE-2019-0708, the vulnerability has been more popularly named...
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last 10 years, you’ve heard of the Internet of Things, or IoT as it’s commonly abbreviated. The subset of IoT belonging specifically to healthcare...
Hospitals have an average of 15 to 20 devices per bed, which means even a comparatively small 100-bed hospital is home to thousands of medical devices, most of which are connected to the hospital...
Today’s hospitals are centers of advanced technology, with upwards of several thousand medical devices and clinical assets under their roof. The US is home to 6,210 hospitals, each with 50 to 500...
Picture this: you're a doctor at Holy Mountain’s Heart & Vascular Center. You're running late. Rushing past a waiting room full of patients in need of care, you hurry to your office and unlock the...
Though cybersecurity is most closely associated with the IT department, the truth is that it affects and touches all aspects of an organization. Indeed, even the most devoted IT professionals...
“Cybersecurity is currently one of health care’s largest concerns. The unlawful manipulation of medical devices locally, or more recently remotely, via malware and ransomware attacks, represents...
Spurred by competition, razor-thin operating margins, and government regulation, healthcare organizations are under immense pressure to quickly and regularly implement new technologies.
The rush to adopt IoT devices in consumer and business markets is well documented, but the scale of uptake comes at a cost: the increased risk of cyber attack. More connected devices and the...
The world is changing; and while there may never have been a time when that statement was not true, it seems particularly true today. Change these days seems to be a lot more aggressive and...
Like most business units at this time of year, biomedical and clinical teams will be reflecting on the last 12 months and trying, as best they can, to figure out what the new year will bring....
Subject to stringent regulatory regimes with considerable legacy complications hindering new infrastructure, technology, or processes — most hospitals are also saddled with significant...
Medical devices are often the weak point in a hospital’s technology landscape and, if compromised, could affect patient privacy, health, and safety.
Use of the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) in hospitals is growing. IP addressable medical technologies help deliver personalized care more quickly, give healthcare professionals access to...
It seems that every day we hear about the need for more and better medical cybersecurity measures, but why? We don’t hear about the need for retailers to improve shoplifting prevention mechanisms....
Machine learning is totally transforming the healthcare industry; from how patient care is delivered, to how laboratory procedures are conducted, to diagnostics, all the way to how information...
By now, most of us are familiar with the “WannaCry” ransomware attack. This attack exploited a weakness in Microsoft's Windows operating system to encrypt files and render computers useless until...
I won't sugar coat it. Hospitals are seen by hackers as "soft" and valuable targets. The modern medical facility is connected to the internet in a multitude of ways. These connections include...
CyberMDX made news when its research and analysis team identified and responsibly disclosed two serious and hitherto unknown medical device vulnerabilities.
Directed by Oscar-nominated filmmakers Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering, the new Netflix documentary, The Bleeding Edge, profiles five people who suffered horrendously when the medical devices on which...
Your CISO has a big job: develop network security processes and procedures, while addressing privacy, confidentiality and compliance standards, while investigating and managing health information...
