Cyber-security is an MDR topic too

An artic­le by Miri­am Schuh & Dr. Car­lo Piltz in the maga­zi­ne medizin&technik, issue 06/2017

In order to give hackers no chan­ce when it comes to medi­cal devices, manu­fac­tu­r­ers must con­sider the sta­te of the art in IT tech­no­lo­gy at all times and inform the user about risks and measures. 

More than just panic-mongering or fic­tion: poten­ti­al cyber attacks on life-preserving medi­cal devices and the health­ca­re sys­tem. The fact is that the per­for­mance of medi­cal devices is beco­ming depen­dent on the error-free per­for­mance of firm­ware and soft­ware to a grea­ter and grea­ter extent.

You can find more on IT secu­ri­ty in the MDR, risk manage­ment, the cur­rent sta­te of tech­no­lo­gy and the assess­ment of lia­bi­li­ty risks in the on-line artic­le in medizin&technik

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