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Welcome to MDISS

We are a collaborative and inclusive nonprofit professional organization committed to advancing quality health care with a focus on the safety and security of medical devices. We serve providers, payers, manufacturers, universities, government agencies, technology companies, individuals, patients, patient advocates and associations.
Our mission is to protect public health and well-being by advancing computer risk management practices to ensure wide availability of innovative and safe medical devices.
“These [medical device] infections have the potential to greatly affect the world-class patient care that is expected by our customers. In addition to compromising data and the system, these incidents are also extremely costly to the VA in terms of time and money spent cleansing infected medical devices.”
Roger Baker
Assistant Secretary for Information and
Technology Department of Veterans Affairs
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Latest public documents

Fuzz Testing Medical Devices - Technical White Paper Series

This document contains a framework for improving the safety and reliability of software and firmware in medical devices by using fuzzing. Fuzzing is a testing technique for locating unknown vulnerabilities and other defects by sending malformed and unexpected inputs to software.

(Monday, December 3, 2012)
MDISS in the news

OULU, FINLAND and SARATOGA, CA, USA, June 26, 2012 --   Codenomicon, the leading vendor of proactive security testing software, has joined the Medical Device Innovation, Safety and Security Consortium (MDISS) to enhance the security in solutions and devices in the healthcare industry.

(Tuesday, June 26, 2012)

CHICAGO (February 16, 2012) - The Healthcare  Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS)  announced today that the 2012 mHealth Summit  will take place Dec. 3 -5 at  the Gaylord National Resort and  Convention Center in Washington D.C.

(Sunday, February 12, 2012)
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Download MDISS Brochure Our consortium is focused on optimizing the relationship between the quality of health care and the process of assessing and ensuring that devices and systems are secure and functioning in a safe and efficacious manner.
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Healthcare news

  • LSU database gaffe leads to HIPAA breach

    (Friday, May 17, 2013)

    This story has been updated. 

    Siemens Healthcare and Louisiana State University at Shreveport are notifying 8,330 patients of a HIPAA breach following a database mishap that resulted in billing and treatment information being mailed to the wrong patients. 

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  • Providers look to revenue cycle management to weather sequester and ICD-10

    (Friday, May 17, 2013)

    Healthcare organizations will need to be more effective, cost efficient and productive in the future to not only survive, but also to maintain positive cash flows, according to Brian Fugere, COO of RemitDATA. 

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  • URAC standards put to the test

    (Friday, May 17, 2013)

    Several organized physician groups are beta testing URAC’s new clinical integration accreditation program standards. The independent standards organization created the new program to serve as a road map for health providers to achieve clinical integration and accountable care. By earning URAC accreditation, providers will demonstrate they are delivering improved patient care and reducing costs.

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  • Bed management IT new 'hot market'

    (Friday, May 17, 2013)

    Bed management software applications have witnessed record growth rates over the past five years and are considered the new hot market for vendors and providers to watch, according to the findings of a new HIMSS Analytics/directory/analytics" target="_blank" class="directory-item-link">Analytics report. 

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