It’s well renowned that latest technological innovations radically changed our lives at all levels, to the point to be considered “disruptive”: they changed the way we communicate, the way we access information, how we buy and use products and services, how we move and definitely live. In this context, the Medical field not only makes no exception, but it also has be considered among the most investing industries, with the development of ICT innovations that may revert the ‘status-quo’, such as new methods and technologies both capable to enhance the treatments and health care capabilities available today, and make possible to treatments for health conditions that due to many reasons weren’t treatable just a few years ago.
Anyways, this kind of game-changing innovations doesn’t come for free: along with innovation, a lot of new potential vulnerabilities putting at risk medical device’s functionalities and also patients’ health have stepped into the scene.