USENIX HealthTech hosts medical device security panel from FDA, VA, and industry in DC

I am pleased to announce that representatives from FDA, the VA, and medical device manufacturing have agreed to participate in a technical panel on recent activity in the medical device security space. Early registration for the USENIX HealthTech Workshop ends on July 22. Note, this is a technical and research workshop. With a bit of policy to spice things up.

USENIX HealthTech Workshop on Safety, Security, Privacy, and Interoperability of Health Information Technologies

Monday, August 12, 2013
Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill
Washington, DC

The panel on "Health Data and Device Perspectives from Industry, Government, and Health Providers" takes place at 11AM and will focus on security and privacy related to recent news over the past year. Confirmed panelists include:


Brian Fitzgerald, Deputy Division Director, Division of Electrical and Software Engineering, U.S. Food & Drug Administration Center for Devices & Radiological Health

Ken Hoyme, Medical Device Consultant and Co-chair, AAMI Medical Device Security Working Group; Former Senior Fellow, Boston Scientific, Cardiac Rhythm Management

Lynette Sherrill, Deputy Director, Office of Information Security, Field Security Office, Health Information Security Division, Department of Veterans Affairs

Kevin Fu (moderator), Associate Professor and Director, Archimedes Center for Medical Device Security, Computer Science & Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Michigan






For a refresher course, look back at the video recordings from the predecessor workshop, HealthSec.

-Kevin Fu