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#126 – ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS: PANACEA OR PANDORA’S BOX? – JEFF HARRIS

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AAA-Jeff-150x150On September 25th, 2014, a 42 year old Liberian man in the U.S. visiting family fell ill and went to a Dallas, Texas hospital for treatment. He told the nurse that he had fever and abdominal pain and was from a West African country that was in the midst of an Ebola outbreak. The nurse duly noted this in their state of the art electronic health record (EHR) system and passed him along to the ER physician. He was sent home with antibiotics.  Eleven days later he became the first person in the U.S. to die of the Ebola virus and set up an epidemiological nightmare. Continue reading →

#124 – ANATOMY OF A MEDICAL DEVICE ATTACK – JEFF HARRIS

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AAA-Jeff-150x150TrapX, a security company that specializes in medical device attacks, outlined how these attacks occur in a report titled “Anatomy of an Attack: MedJack” in May of 2015. In this report several case studies are examined in detail. In the first case study, malware was inserted on a blood gas analyzer. Continue reading →

#122 – YOUR MEDICAL DEVICE IS HACKABLE – JEFF HARRIS

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AAA-Jeff-150x150In 2011, at a hacking convention known as Black Hat, a security researcher and insulin pump user demonstrated how he could remotely disable and modify his insulin pump over a wireless connection using inexpensive and readily available equipment.

In 2012, another security researcher demonstrated how he could capture and reverse engineer wireless communication from an Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD) and cause the device to deliver a lethal shock to the heart. Continue reading →

#116 – RBT IN HEALTHCARE – WHY COMMUNICATION IS KEY – JEFF HARRIS

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AAA Jeff“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.” 
―George Bernard Shaw

On January 13th, 1982, an Air Florida passenger jet crashed into the 14th Street Bridge after takeoff from Washington National Airport, killing 74 passengers on the plane and 4 people in their vehicles on the bridge. After reviewing the flight data recorder, it was discovered that the first officer had repeatedly told the captain that something wasn’t right at takeoff and was rebuffed. Instead of assertively repeating his concerns, the first officer finally agreed with the captain that everything was normal. Continue reading →