Fu is a computer science professor doing research on preventing implanted medical devices from being hacked. At the 2008 Defcon hacker convention in Las Vegas, Fu and his team of researchers showed it was possible to get information such as Social Security numbers and medical diagnoses from implanted devices. They also showed that by impersonating the computer a defibrillator communicates with and wirelessly changing the settings, a hacker could send a fatal shock to a patient’s heart.
At the time, MHT talked to Beth Israel Deaconness Medical Center researcher William Maisel, a member of the research team, about the project. In the video above, Fu explains his research at another hacker conference, Black Hat 2008.
Other New Englanders selected:
José Gómez-Márquez, director of MIT’s Innovations in International Health
Popular Science rounds up some bleeding-edge health care technologies, including a trial of “cut-by-color” cancer surgery (warning: story includes revolting photo) at the Beth Israel Deaconess:
On a video screen, the nerves to be avoided appear fuchsia, while a bright green shines from the tumor and outlines its drainage path to the sentinel lymph nodes — those most likely to collect cancer cells.
The “Machines that Heal” package also takes a look at Japanese robotic nurse Twendy-One, 3D patient model Caveman, an exoskeleton for stroke rehab, a helmet for mind-controlling a robot, and laser-based mouse psychiatry. The photo going along with that last one isn’t quite revolting, but it’s definitely unsettling.
Click the link above to hear former Globe reporter and current president of Krasner Health Strategies Jeffrey Krasner interviewed local hospital CEOs/bloggers Charlie Baker and Paul Levy at the Convergence Forum in Newport last week.
After the jump, watch video of Genzyme CEO Henri Termeer speaking at the Convergence Forum. (more…)
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