Connected medical devices offer benefits but also pose cybersecurity risks that can disrupt patient care. The FDA’s new guidance highlights the need for strong cybersecurity measures and provides recommendations for integrating these measures into human factors engineering to ensure device safety.
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Hailey Fehrenbach
Senior UX Researcher
Hailey is a classically trained human factors engineer with over 5 years of experience in medical device and healthcare analytics product development. With a background in design, engineering, and research, she delivers useful, usable, and engaging experiences for all customer touch points across medical device and healthcare industries. Her experience spans research on robotic surgical equipment and combination devices for at-home use, to the design and development of neurotech and cardiac diagnostic platforms. Hailey has a BS in Design from the University of Cincinnati and a MS in Industrial and Human Factors Engineering from Wright State University.
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