New $10M NSF Research Center to Investigate Trustworthy Health and Wellness

Today the National Science Foundation announced a new $10 million research center led by Dartmouth College to investigate Trustworthy Health and Wellness (THaW.org). THaW aims to enable the promise of health and wellness technology by innovating mobile- and cloud-computing systems that respect the privacy of individuals and the trustworthiness of medical information.

Within the University of Michigan's College of Engineering, our role focuses on scientific methods to study the extent of malware in hospital networks. Michigan is also the home of the Archimedes Center for Medical Device Security to help manufacturers improve medical device security.

More information can be found at NSF and the participating universities (Dartmouth College, University of Illinois, Johns Hopkins University, University of Michigan).

-Kevin Fu

Join us at the HealthTech 2013 Poster/Demo Session

The USENIX Workshop on Health Information Technologies on August 12th is rapidly approaching. We have already blogged about the medical device security panel, but the poster/demo session will also be a great opportunity to meet and exchange ideas with some of the best and brightest in the community.

In addition to refereed poster presentations, there will be a binary analysis and fuzzing demo put on by Codenomicon, the session's sponsor. Codenomicon will be running their demo 5:45--7:00 pm.