The federal government and GE Healthcare (NYSE:GE) announced today that the certain of the company’s patient monitoring devices are vulnerable to cyberattack.
If attacked, some versions of the Carescape and ApexPro telemetry servers, the Carescape Central Station version 1 and Central Information Center systems could stop monitoring patients, silence alarms or produce unnecessary alarms during patient monitoring. The danger is higher if the devices and systems are connected to improperly configured Mission Critical (MC) and/or Information Exchange (IX) networks, according to the company.