Context and Motivation
The health industry is a key driver for growth in the EU and has the capacity to provide technologies that benefit both patients and providers of healthcare services. The value chains involve a broad variety of actors from supply, demand and regulatory constituencies. In addition, the pathways for innovation in healthcare technologies are often long and complex. The development of novel healthcare technologies often encounter market barriers due to highly demanding quality and security requirements (e.g. clinical performance, safety, data privacy and cybersecurity) and market specificities (e.g. strong regulation, pricing and reimbursement issues). In addition, the growing concern for environmental issues is putting increased pressure on the healthcare industry. These combined challenges create a pressing need for research and innovation integrating various EU stakeholders to achieve innovative digital health technologies.
Escalating Threats
Inovations in medical device software development practices and tools provide the most promising solutions to address the complexity of increasingly connected medical devices and the escalating threat environment in which they operate. However, substantial technological challenges remain in achieving interoperability, dependability and trustworthiness at scale within the diverse commercial EU medical device market.
Solution
The MedSecurance project will develop novel methodologies, infrastructures, and technologies that enable an effective, harmonious and continuous development and evolution of secure Internet of Medical Things (IoMT). The project advances knowledge and understanding for decision-making in diverse IoMT security threat landscapes based on different system and component level interactions and interdependencies, and will provide scalable and verifiable secure system engineering management solutions that capture, communicate, and act on these complexities in order to improve cyberdefence while automating cybersecurity assurance.
