The remote monitoring capabilities facilitated by the Merlin@home transmitter permit automated follow-up appointments and daily device checks to occur wirelessly, with limited patient action required.

St. Jude Medical has promised a patch to protect the Merlin@home Transmitter range from cyberattacks, only a month after patching a variety of security flaws in similar devices. The medical device ...

After reports claiming hackers can break into Merlin@home monitors and reprogram St. Jude implants, the FDA conducted an investigation.

St. Jude Medical added another Merlin@home Transmitter medical device to its list of equipment vulnerable to a man-in-the-middle attack.

The remote monitoring capabilities facilitated by the Merlin@home transmitter permit automated follow-up appointments and daily device checks to occur wirelessly, with limited patient action required.

The move came on the heels of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s warning that the company’s Merlin@home Transmitter contained vulnerabilities that could be exploited by hackers.

The agency also recommends physicians: Continue to conduct in-office follow-up, per normal routine, for patients with cardiac devices monitored with the Merlin@home Transmitter.

St. Jude Medical patched the Merlin@home Transmitter, addressing flaws made public last year in a controversial disclosure by MedSec Holdings and Muddy Waters.

This system allows patient data from an implantable cardiac device to be wirelessly downloaded and transmitted securely through a telephone to a physician for review purposes. The new Wireless USB ...

St. Jude Medical, Inc., a global medical device company, today announced the U.S. launch of its Wireless USB Adaptor for the Merlin@home™ transmitter, a system that allows important patient data ...