IMPACTING MEDICAL DEVICES
IoMT (Internet of Medical Things)
New technologies such as smart sensors, smart devices, and other lightweight communication devices.
New Business Models
The data collected, analyzed, and shared with healthcare organizations potentially presents an additional revenue stream companies.
Vulnerabilities in medical devices can be exploited to gain unauthorized access to data on – or transmitted by – devices, networks, and upstream and downstream IT systems.
Threat actors can steal patient information, manipulate data, exploit providers, hold information for ransom, alter patient treatment plans, and/or manipulate connected devices to harm patients that use them.
The digital thread or data traceability enables the ability to quickly gather and share data, either internally across the enterprise or to collaborators in the extended supply chain.
The importance of having more than a repository on a solid data platform is increasingly become important to maintain business resiliency.