Can’t wait for the medical device hacks coming soon!

I recently was admitted to an American hospital due to sepsis for an extended period of time, when I was visiting family for a few months (fortunately I am insured in the United States even while abroad).

The hospital required the nurses to administer IV meds in a very peculiar way.

One week into my hospital stay, they started a new programme administering IV meds with code executed from the Electronic Health Record (Epic) to the pump. The pump would start as soon as the barcodes for the IV meds were scanned. The infusion rates were programmed into the electronic health record so the nurses didn’t have to manually program the pump.