12/11/2025

Cybersecurity is mandatory. EU Regulation 2017/745 (MDR) requires that medical devices be protected against unauthorized access. For manufacturers of medical devices and health software, this means they must actively address digital threats, both technically and from a regulatory perspective. IEC 81001-5-1 provides, for the first time, a standard for this purpose. ...

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Variety of variants and integration pressure: The invisible bottleneck in operating room lighting. Operating room lights may appear inconspicuous at first glance, but they are technologically highly complex medical devices. They combine various engineering disciplines such as mechanics, optics, electronics, and software, and are increasingly being integrated with digital interfaces. ...

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05/31/2021

Update Notice (May 23, 2025) This article is based on AAMI TIR57:2016, an important guideline for cybersecurity risk management in medical devices. Since 2023, TIR57 has been supplemented by the new standard ANSI/AAMI SW96:2023, which formalizes the content and ...

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03/25/2021

ⓘ This event has already ended. Summary Topic: Modelling for Everyone Date: April 28, 2021, 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Location: Online Registration deadline: April 27, 2021 Price: free I'm in Event Info The first meeting this year on the topic of Systems Engineering will take place ...

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02/15/2021

Eclipse is an open-source development environment that supports multiple programming languages. More and more microcontroller manufacturers are using the IDE to provide a free development environment with a pre-installed toolchain. Examples include STM32CubeIDE, Simplicity Studio, and others. Eclipse offers ...

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01/14/2021

Software testing is essential and should be an active process throughout the entire software lifecycle. Important terms to be mentioned here are error behavior, error state, and error effect. Error behavior is a human action that ...

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