Category: medtronic

Ventilator companies are opening up critical repair documents to the public

Post author By Randall
Post date April 23, 2020
Categories In coronavirus, covid-19, fisher & paykal, ge, gear, healthcare, manuals, manufacturers, medical equipment, medtronic, News, open source, pirg, repair, right to repair, Tech, ventilators

[ad_1] “I want to thank ventilator manufacturers such as GE for providing access to service documents,” Nathan Proctor, head of the right to repair campaign at the PIRG, said in a statement. “When technicians can’t access service manuals, it puts unnecessary barriers to fixing life-saving equipment.” While the need for medical equipment technical manuals is […]

Foxconn’s contentious Wisconsin plant will be used to make ventilators

Post author By Randall
Post date April 8, 2020
Categories In coronavirus, covid-19, factory, foxconn, gear, medtronic, News, plant, Tech, ventilator, wisconsin

[ad_1] Foxconn’s dubious Wisconsin factory — the subject of billions of dollars of tax subsidy scrutiny — will be used to produce ventilators to aid in treatment for COVID-19 around the US. The company, best known for assembling Apple’s iPhones at factories in China, has entered into a partnership with healthcare firm Medtronic for the […]

DHS issues warning about Medtronic implantable defibrillator flaws

Post author By Randall
Post date March 22, 2019
Categories In gadgetry, Gadgets, gear, medicine, medtronic, Security, Tech, vulnerability
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[ad_1] (This is one of the affected Medtronic programmers, which allow doctors to tweak the implant’s settings.) Implantable defibrillators are placed under the skin to monitor the patient’s heart. If they detect a wildly irregular rhythm, they shoot out electric shocks to restore the person’s normal heartbeat. The vulnerabilities allow bad actors to change or […]