Medical Design Briefs - January 2023 - 4
More Connected Devices Means More Cyberattacks
F
rom glucose monitors to infusion
pumps, the rise in connected medical
devices is endangering healthcare cybersecurity,
according to findings in Capterra's
new Medical IoT Survey. The survey of
healthcare IT professionals also reveals
that two in three healthcare cyberattacks
impact patient data and nearly half (48
percent) impact patient care.
More connected devices mean more
hacks: healthcare organizations with over
70 percent of their devices connected to
the Internet are 24 percent more likely to
experience a cyberattack than practices
with 50 percent or fewer connected devices.
However, many practices aren't
taking enough precautions, notes the
survey. Some alarming findings include:
* 57 percent of practices don't always
change the default username and password
for each new connected medical
device put into use.
* 68 percent don't always update connected
devices when a patch is available.
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* 82 percent run connected medical devices
on old Windows systems.
According to Capterra analyst Zach
Capers, " Our research also finds that a
plurality of healthcare organizations (40
percent) have between 51 and 70 percent
of their medical devices connected
to the Internet, either through Wi-Fi or
hardwired, while a third (34 percent)
have more than 70 percent connected.
Only about a quarter of practices (26
percent) have half or less of their medical
devices connected. Clearly, the medical
IoT is no longer on the rise, but is
now firmly entrenched at most healthcare
organizations. "
He also notes that " once connected,
medical devices often go unmonitored
because they lack the ability to run solutions
such as antivirus or endpoint protection
tools that are typically used for
desktop computers and other traditional
network devices. " Capers says these IoT
devices run on a wide array of software
and hardware platforms, which makes
them difficult to monitor with a single
tool. These factors, he says, mean that
many connected medical devices are left
wide open to cyberattacks.
Medical device OEMs should take note
of these findings. Unfortunately, Capers
says that medical devices that do use traditional
operating systems commonly
run on legacy platforms that are no longer
supported and cannot be patched.
" A full 82 percent of our respondents
say that at least some of the connected
medical devices at their practice run on
Windows operating systems older than
Windows 10, " says Capers.
Medical device designers must make
cybersecurity a priority.
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