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FDA to Plug Holes in Medical Device Security Systems

It's depressingly easy to figure out hundreds of passwords

Michael Causey
Thu, 06/20/2013 - 14:27
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The Internet giveth and the Internet taketh away. For years, we’ve been hearing about the benefits online tools will bring to the medical industry, especially at hospitals and physicians’ offices. Many of those promises have come true, and it’s been a benefit for patients and industry.

But that sound you are hearing could be the other shoe dropping.

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Perhaps reacting in part to a sobering year-long series by The Washington Post finding big, big holes in medical-device security systems, the week of June 17, 2013, the FDA issued a new safety communication suggesting the hospitals take this threat to medical devices seriously.

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Submitted by umberto mario tunesi on Fri, 06/28/2013 - 02:09

Word of Pass

Hi. Who reads of me knows of my familiarity with the ever passing ISO 9001 word. Growing older and - may be - wiser, I feel that my ISO lighthouse should grow itself to present days, too, and stop thinking that vessels are only sea-going and wind-pushed, but they are also between-continents flying, and stealth-made, too. If there's a big black hole in management systems, it's IT, and if there's a big black hole in IT systems it's data security: Snow-then, or snow-now? Thank you.

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