Healthcare IT Today April 29, 2019
MRI machines taking commands from Russian botnets…developers withholding device data from researchers within their own company…those are just a couple spectacular symptoms of what ails medical devices, stories aired on April 23 at Boston’s Medical Device & IoT Summit. As I listened to the devices’ risks and challenges, I wondered if the industry could rise to the demands of today’s networked, data-driven environments.
My challenge might seem odd given the ubiquity and importance of medical devices. Spending on them was 172 billion dollars in 2013 in just the US (see page 5 of the PDF) and perhaps 390 billion dollars worldwide in 2016. A single manufacturer in Boston earned 2.56 billion dollars in 2018, an increase of 17 percent, and...
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