IU Health’s new cutting-edge medical device testing lab, located at the 16 Tech Innovation District in downtown Indianapolis, was founded in response to the growing number of healthcare cybersecurity attacks.
The vision for the lab is to have a state-of-the-art center for testing and researching medical device security. A lab environment that fully replicates the conditions of real-live clinical settings to test, validate and improve medical device security standards.
The vision for the lab is to have a state-of-the-art center for testing and researching medical device security. A lab environment that fully replicates the conditions of real-live clinical settings to test, validate and improve medical device security standards.
IU Health will be collaborating with clinical practitioners, manufacturers, academics, clinical engineers, and security professionals to advance medical device security. This collaboration will foster an environment of innovation and creation of security solutions and standards to protect patients.
By working with researchers, clinicians, security experts, academic institutions, and manufacturers we will not only discover threats, but also develop countermeasures to improve medical device security and patient safety. We will seek to discover new threats and simulate those attacks to train clinicians to be able to recognize the signs of a cyber-attack on medical devices.
The lab utilizes a variety of techniques for testing medical devices. These devices (listed below) are utilized at IU Health facilities and other healthcare systems across the country.
The tests will replicate the same tools, techniques, and procedures used by cybercriminals. All testing and research conducted at the lab will be in a simulated clinical environment. The results from our testing will be submitted to peer-reviewed journal articles and shared with the larger cybersecurity community.
For questions or to learn more, please contact the IU Health Security Research team at securityresearch@iuhealth.org.
Interview with Nick Sturgeon, director, IU Health Information Security, regarding IU Health’s Medical Device Security Testing lab to test vulnerabilities and the overall security of medical devices.
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