Internet-connected pacemakers will provide a ‘kill switch’ in patients’ hearts

‘Could medical devices like pacemakers be accessible from the Internet someday? Actually, that technology is already here.

Remote wireless monitoring of patients via the worldwide web is increasing, according to telematics research engineer Jasone Astorga, of Spain’s University of the Basque Country, the only public academic institution in the northern portion of the country. In recent years, new progress has been made in the area of remote monitoring, via means of implanted sensors.

A new Ladon security protocol “offers revolutionary features that make it possible to deploy applications that guarantee the privacy of sensors of this type, in other words, the medical information is only made available in response to legitimate, authorized requests,” according to a translated press release from the university.’

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