FDA Releases Safety Notice About Some GE Healthcare Servers
January 23 2020 - 3:39PM
Dow Jones News
By Allison Prang
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday said select GE
Healthcare servers used for monitoring patients statuses or
displaying their information were found to have "cybersecurity
vulnerabilities."
The regulator's advisory was regarding select GE Healthcare
Clinical Information Central Stations and Telemetry Servers. The
FDA said it is possible someone could "remotely take control of the
device to silence alarms, generate false alarms or interfere with
the function of patient monitors connected to these devices" and
that an attack on the servers could go unnoticed and not be found
by security measures because it could seem to be a normal
communication.
The FDA said it hasn't gotten any reports related to these
issues.
A GE Healthcare spokesperson said in an emailed statement that
the company is "not aware of any incidents where these
vulnerabilities have been exploited in a clinical situation."
"We are instructing the facilities where these devices are
located to follow network management best practices and are
developing a software patch with additional security enhancements,"
the spokesperson said.
Write to Allison Prang at allison.prang@wsj.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
January 23, 2020 15:24 ET (20:24 GMT)
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