Digital Trust for Connected Medical Devices

Originally published by DigiCert. Written by Robyn Weisman. Connected medical devices, also known as IoMT (Internet of Medical Things), can dramatically improve patient health while minimizing the potential for harm. Infusion pumps illustrate this in a stark fashion. In 2010, Reuters reported more than 50,000 incidents related to legacy infusion pumps, including 710 deaths. Among the cases cited was a woman who received “10 times the dose of a blood thinner because the zero key on her pump st...

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