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Many legislative and regulatory mandates or guidelines are now moving the industry toward an internet of medical things that builds on proven, multi-layered security strategies. These strategies have already proven successful in applications like diabetes management and medication adherence and can be extended to pacemakers, cardiac monitors and many other safety-critical connected remote patient monitoring…

There is growing and coordinated momentum behind the goal of ensuring connected medical devices improve people’s lives without introducing them to cybersecurity threats and associated safety risks. There also is a proven playbook for implementing the type of multi-layered, security-by-design strategies these initiatives advocate.

Passage of the Omnibus bill has given the FDA statutory authority to create a world where no one who benefits from connected medical technologies must worry about hackers trying to exploit these technologies. The latest draft FDA guidance takes another big step toward aligning medical device requirements with the industry’s proven cybersecurity best practices. Equally…

Real-time location system (RTLS) solutions got their start in government and the military during the 1990s, and have since been adopted in manufacturing, logistics and aerospace, among other applications. More recently they are seeing growing use in healthcare consignment inventory management and retail item tracking. In both applications, RTLS must be implemented with a security-by-design…

Today’s IoT-based RTLS systems can ensure that high-value consumer products are accurately accounted for to the retail point of sale. To be successful, however, the solutions must be protected from cyber threats at each step of the journey using a multi-layered, “security-by-design” strategy that ensures continuous availability of critical inventory status for all items and…

Telemedicine, or telehealth, enables health-care providers to deliver care via technology and, in many cases, virtually via a telehealth software app that is accessible on a smartphone, tablet, or desktop. But it is much more than that now with wellness trackers that can be integrated into a patient’s health-care records and remote patient monitoring (RPM)…