More than 200 people with diabetes have been injured when their insulin pumps shut down unexpectedly due to a problem with a connected mobile app, the US Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday.

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    8 months ago

    Lol I just said it wasn’t blind faith, that there was an effective agency and you started linking statistically irrelevant data. I never said it can’t or shouldn’t be improved simply that you were factually wrong. Devices go through considerable testing at multiple worldwide bodies and in general these programs are mostly effective at weeding out dangerous products.

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      8 months ago

      Cool.

      Unfortunately firmware-related problems especially is something regulatory bodies haven’t kept up with. They’ll test the device, sure. But not necessarily every line of code that might ever interact with it.

      Overall they are operating under outdated levels of complexity while medical device manufacturers are running ahead with wireless functionality, mobile apps, over the air updates, etc.