{"id":11234,"date":"2018-12-10T09:54:02","date_gmt":"2018-12-10T14:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=11234"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:05:39","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:05:39","slug":"protecting-medical-devices-from-cybersecurity-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2018\/12\/10\/protecting-medical-devices-from-cybersecurity-threats\/","title":{"rendered":"Protecting medical devices from cybersecurity threats"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7217\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7217\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7217\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/40912648_s.jpg\" alt=\"composite image of medical and information technology icons and devices\" width=\"450\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/40912648_s.jpg 450w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/40912648_s-125x54.jpg 125w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/40912648_s-300x129.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7217\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Copyright: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.123rf.com\/profile_bakhtiarzein\">bakhtiarzein \/ 123RF Stock Photo<\/a>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"date_cats\">Medical devices capable of transmitting health information and connecting to Michigan Medicine\u2019s networks offer improvements to the effective delivery of patient care, but they also may introduce privacy and security concerns. Michigan Medicine\u2019s Information Assurance (IA) program has been raising awareness of these concerns and developing new approaches to address these vulnerabilities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"date_cats\">As a major step, Michigan Medicine is partnering with CyberMDX, a leader in health care threat prevention, to provide a \u201ctouchless\u201d security solution that will monitor, analyze and categorize the vulnerabilities posed by connected medical devices.\u00a0The state-of-art partner offers constant monitoring, providing a kind of \u201ccybercrime shield\u201d poised to identify any unusual or suspicious behavior.<\/p>\n<div class=\"story_copy\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mmheadlines.org\/2018\/12\/protecting-medical-devices-from-cybersecurity-threats\/\">Read the whole story in &#8220;Michigan Medicine Headlines.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medical devices capable of transmitting health information and connecting to Michigan Medicine\u2019s networks offer improvements to the effective delivery of patient care, but they also may introduce privacy and security concerns. Michigan Medicine\u2019s Information Assurance (IA) program has been raising awareness of these concerns and developing new approaches to address these vulnerabilities. As a major step, Michigan Medicine\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2018\/12\/10\/protecting-medical-devices-from-cybersecurity-threats\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":11237,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[488,51,402,121],"class_list":["post-11234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-safe-computing","tag-cybersecurity","tag-medical","tag-michigan-medicine","tag-privacy"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/cybersecbadge-768x762.png",599,423,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/cybersecbadge-768x762-198x140.png",198,140,true],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/cybersecbadge-768x762-283x200.png",283,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/cybersecbadge-768x762.png",599,423,false],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/cybersecbadge-768x762.png",599,423,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/cybersecbadge-768x762.png",599,423,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/cybersecbadge-768x762.png",599,423,false],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/cybersecbadge-768x762-200x140.png",200,140,true],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/cybersecbadge-768x762-60x42.png",60,42,true],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/cybersecbadge-768x762-599x300.png",599,300,true],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/cybersecbadge-768x762.png",599,423,false],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/cybersecbadge-768x762.png",354,250,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Donna Hart, HITS Communications","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/donnahar\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Medical devices capable of transmitting health information and connecting to Michigan Medicine\u2019s networks offer improvements to the effective delivery of patient care, but they also may introduce privacy and security concerns. Michigan Medicine\u2019s Information Assurance (IA) program has been raising awareness of these concerns and developing new approaches to address these vulnerabilities. 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