Hacking pacemakers is good TV, but is it for real?

[Image from Unsplash]Worry less about bad people hacking pacemakers and other cardiac devices. Worry more about them disrupting hospitals’ communications networks. That’s the major message out of the American College of Cardiology’s Electrophysiology Council, which published an article about cardiac devices earlier this month in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.  The idea that hackers might target people’s implantable cardiac devices was popularized in a 2012 episode of the Showtime drama Homeland, in which terrorists hacked a fictional vice president’s pacemaker and killed him. Word eventually got out that former Vice President Dick Cheney had the wireless communications shut off on a defibrillator that implanted in him in 2007 during his final years in office. Get the full story on our sister site Medical Design & Outsourcing. The post Hacking pacemakers is good TV, but is it for real? appeared first on MassDevice.
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