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Why Medical Devices Still Lack Secure Connectivity in Hospitals

Understand the Real-World Gaps Blocking Secure Implementation - Even When Devices Are “Secure by Design.”

Medical device manufacturers are facing growing pressure to demonstrate secure interoperability with HIS, LIS, and PACS systems. But even when devices support HL7, DICOM, and ASTM protocols, hospital infrastructure, outdated systems, and regulatory blind spots prevent secure deployment. This white paper unpacks what’s really happening on the ground—and what manufacturers, HDOs, and policymakers can do about it.

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Actionable roadmaps

Medical device cybersecurity is a hard problem to solve. Our Services team provides actionable roadmaps to facilitate product development, quality, and security frameworks to meet your pre- and post-market needs. No matter where you are in your process, we enhance your processes and agile methodologies to get to market, while optimizing your resources.

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FDA cybersecurity readiness

Optimize your path to FDA cybersecurity readiness. We partner with you to ensure your devices can achieve the highest level of regulatory review, as well as develop cybersecurity programs that scale with you. Get your secure medical devices to market on or even ahead of schedule, with peace of mind.

FDA hold letter response

Get immediate guidance to navigate your response process effectively.

Threat modeling

Ensure your software ecosystem is protected and incorporate continuous security improvements into your design and engineering processes. We do a deep-dive investigation into your architecture, design, requirements, and implementation to create threat models that review current state, refine trust boundaries, identify requirements, and propose remediations, ensuring that your hardware, firmware, software, network communication, and data handling components to ensure you are protected now and in the future.

Cryptography design and review

We assess your PKI and certificate management practices, perform gap analysis with industry best practices and regulatory guidance, and develop realistic and actionable mitigation strategies for medical devices.

What you'll Learn

Specifically designed to address these urgent challenges and turn cybersecurity into your competitive advantage. Our solution empowers you to:

Why protocol support ≠ protocol implementation
How FDA and HIPAA split responsibility—and where that leaves risk
Where hospitals struggle to adopt secure standards
What manufacturers can do to reduce postmarket surprises




What manufacturers can do to reduce postmarket surprises
Don't let cybersecurity be an afterthought that limits your market potential. Partner with Medcrypt to ensure your medical devices are secure by design, expediting your go-to-market process and building lasting trust with healthcare providers.

Our proven track record

Every customer who needed help navigating cybersecurity documentation requirements for the FDA has had a 100% success rate.

Now, we’re offering a 100% guarantee for new customers: If you follow our guidance and your product meets cybersecurity expectations, we’ll support you through all FDA feedback - until your cybersecurity documentation is accepted.

Naomi Schwartz

Naomi Schwartz

VP of Services
Seth Carmody

Seth Carmody

VP of Regulatory Strategy
AJ Reiter

AJ Reiter

Director of Strategy and Organizational Transformation
Nick Atwell

Nick Atwell

Senior Manager of Cybersecurity

Free Resources

Expert content to help you through your regulatory submission journey.

Download the full case study

Get all the details, data, and in-depth analysis by downloading our full case study.