A Review of the Impact of Cybersecurity in High-risk Medical Devices And In-vitro Medical Devices All Over The World

Abstract

In modern healthcare systems, medical devices are playing a major role which involves personalized medical devices which improve the patient’s lifestyle as they can be remotely monitored and their data are transmissible. Due to these data transmissions, the number of connections to the existing computer networks is increased. Being interoperable and interconnected these personalized medical devices provide great benefits like improved sensing capabilities and actuating capabilities. But the problem with high connectivity computer networks is that it exposes medical device to high cybersecurity vulnerabilities. The main targets are the pacemakers and institutions like hospitals and clinics. Hackers can easily hack medical devices and change prescriptions. So a cybersecurity breach can leak a patient’s sensitive and confidential data and risk the patient’s life. To prevent these multifaceted problems from happening these problems must be viewed from a systematic perspective and requires governance, technical controls, regulation, and standards.