Detail When Code Can Kill or Cure   Oleh:  [s.n] Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine Dalam koleksi: The Economist (http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 403 no. 8787 (Jun. 2012), page S17-S18. Topik: Medical Device Industry; Software; Innovations Ketersediaan Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: EE29.72 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada     Lihat Detail Induk Isi artikel Smart pumps deliver drugs perfectly dosed for individual patients. Easy-to-use defibrillators can bring heart-attack victims back from the brink of death. Pacemakers and artificial hearts keep people alive by ensuring that blood is pumped smoothly around their bodies. Medical devices are a wonder of the modern age. As these devices have become more capable, however, they have also become more complex. More than half the medical devices sold in America (the world's largest health-care market) rely on software, and often lots of it. This growing reliance on software causes problems that are familiar to anyone who has ever used a computer: bugs, crashes and vulnerability to digital attacks.When software in a medical device malfunctions, the consequences can be far more serious than just having to reboot your PC. Software errors were the most frequently cited problem. If buggy code causes a pump to interpret a single keystroke multiple times, for example, it could deliver an overdose. Therre are moves afoot to improve the overall security and reliability of software in medical devices. Opini Anda Klik untuk menuliskan opini Anda tentang koleksi ini! Kembali

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