Med-Tech Innovation March 5, 2021
Pavel Novik

Pavel Novik, QA Unit Manager and the head of the Mobile Testing Center of Excellence at a1qa, explains how blockchain can ensure comprehensive protection of medical device data, the key target for cybercriminals in the healthcare industry.

With the ongoing advancement of the medical IoT, hospitals get equipped with more and more medical devices. They not only play a role in diagnosing, preventing, and curing diseases; they also continuously gather vital patient data and transmit it to clinical information systems.

On the one hand, this technology facilitates treatment and automates laborious data management workflows, but on the other, it came to be the most common target of cybercriminals.

Typically, hackers are after protected health information — it is either sold...

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Topics: Cloud, Cybersecurity, Health IT, IoT (Internet of Things), Medical Devices, Provider, Technology
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