Controlling for cybersecurity risks of medical device software

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 56, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 35-37

  Fu, Kevin ^a   Blum, James ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED DIAGNOSIS; CYBER SECURITY; HEALTH CONSEQUENCES; MALWARES; MEDICAL DEVICES; PATIENT CARE; SECURITY PROPERTIES; SYSTEM PROPERTY;

COMPUTER CRIME; DIAGNOSIS; HEALTH RISKS; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; MEDICAL COMPUTING; SOFTWARE RELIABILITY;

BIOMEDICAL EQUIPMENT;

EID: 84885719603     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 15577317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2508701     Document Type: Article

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