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0 pointsIdidntdothis6y ago0 comments

In medical devices when you screw up they can stop you from selling in a country for a while. That usually wakes people up. Stopping them from doing business for a while would wake up a lot of companies. But they can always hold their employees hostage since they would take most of the suffering.

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monadic26y ago· 1 in thread

Unless of course the screw up is “normal”, like leaving your device unsecured and open to the internet (which is wide spread in the medical device community, at least in practice).

IdidntdothisOP6y ago

I guess with “screw up” I meant things the regulatory organization doesn’t like. This could mean just wrong paperwork.

As far as security goes things are improving. Five years ago you got brushed off if you pointed out how easily hackable the devices were. Now people are listening and the FDA also seems to understand issues better.

bobbydroptables6y ago

Yep. Restrict their access to countries, markets, permits, approvals, private jets, the list goes on. There's a lot we can do short of jailing. And we can and should jail.

esel2k6y ago

Well it is not completely clean in that industry. When selling large capital equipment you influence the buyer alot - invite them to your HQ, big hotel, show your secret innovation and talk about massive deals in reagents or other system the buy from you...

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