Why Windows should be banned from network medical devices

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Medical devices are everywhere today.  In your doctors office measuring your blood pressure, at your cosmetician (for hip reduction...) and in the hospital for everything from patient monitoring to robot-assisted surgery. The people that develop … [Read more...]

What would happen if personal electronics was part of the person?

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Two years ago, my then 88 (now 90 year young) mother-in-law needed some tests. The family physician prescribed a 48 hour Holter monitor test and referred us to the office in Tel Aviv where they would put it on my mother-in-law. He said “Order an … [Read more...]

Killed by your app

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Danny Lieberman talks about the dangers of implanted cardiac devices like pacemakers and considers that  it's only a question of time before we have a drive by execution of a politician with an ICD (implanted cardiac device). There are  hundreds … [Read more...]