Apparatus and method for a managed open source medical device
OwnerAdrian Gropperinventor
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Abstract
This document discusses designing and managing medical devices that are equipped with software, including a variety of ways of managing the public interest in safety and effectiveness of medical devices that are preferably implemented with open-source software. In one general aspect, a method of updating a medical device is disclosed. The method includes storing a vendor certificate in the device, and receiving and storing a licensed prescriber certificate in the device. A signed request to update code in the medical device can then be received and this request can be authenticated with one of the certificates, and the code can be updated in the medical device with code from the authenticated update request.
Claims10
A medical device, including:
- a code storage medium for storing code to be run by a processor,
- an interface to receive code to store in the code storage medium,
- a secure element including key storage for holding licensed prescriber public key certificate managed by a professional licensing board, and
- verification code for verifying that code has been approved by the licensed prescriber prior to running the code on the processor to allow the prescriber to take responsibility for running the code based on the licensed prescriber public key certificate stored in the key storage in the secure element.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.