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Two of history ’s worst software bugs reported to be in medical software
Wired magazine’s History’s Worst Software Bugs article shows two of them were created by the medical software community. Getting on this top 10 list is not exactly a badge of honor, but we can certainly learn from the failings of the past. Wired says the first one occured between 1985 and 1987: Therac-25 medical accelerator. A radiation therapy device malfunctions and delivers lethal radiation doses at several medical facilities. Based upon a previous design, the Therac-25 was an“improved” therapy system that could deliver two different kinds of radiation: either a low-power electron beam (beta p...
Source: The Healthcare IT Guy - November 9, 2005 Category: Information Technology Source Type: blogs