Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans
Man or machine? The question is becoming harder to answer. Rapid advances in medicine are increasingly enabling the integration of information technology with biology. Each year, 300,000 Americans receive wireless implantable medical devices (IMDs), including cardiac pacemakers, defibrillators, cochlear implants, insulin pumps, neuro-stimulators, and various drug delivery systems. Man and machine are becoming one as tiny computers are increasingly being integrated with our own human physiology. In the United States alone, more than 2.5 million people rely upon IMDs to treat conditions ranging from cardiac arrhythmias to diabetes to Parkinson’s disease. A 2012 study by the Freedonia Group estimated that demand for IMDs in the United States will increase 7.7 percent annually and will grow to a $52 billion business in 2015. Initially, IMDs were stand-alone devices that did not frequently communicate with the outside world. Today, however, many are equipped with wireless technologies that allow for direct communication between the IMD and a base station controller. These systems forward physiological information from the IMD to the patient’s physician for the purposes of monitoring and management. Some systems, like blood glucose monitors, are send-only. But others, such as implantable cardiac defibrillators, are bidirectional and allow commands to be sent from […]
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