Earlier this week, Qualcomm made three big announcements in the area of wireless medical devices. In advance of the news, I had the chance to speak with Don Jones, the company’s vice president of business development and global strategy and market development, who walked me through the details and shared an interesting take on how the medical device excise tax might affect wireless...
There's an interesting post on the Wind River Blog Network today about the need to make connected medical devices more secure. Santhosh Nair writes that as medical devices have become smarter and more interconnected, threats to their security have also increased. He cites examples of vulnerabilities in everything from implantables to drug delivery devices. Nair also asserts that the hackers...