The idea of setting up an open hardware lab for these devices, and some kind of bake-off, is awesome. Also, I wish someone could do a medical device network se

The idea of setting up an open hardware lab for these devices, and some kind of bake-off, is awesome. Also, I wish someone could do a medical device network security system -- it really isn't the core competency of any of the hardware vendors, and yet is something you can't get wrong. The public protocols (DICOM, HL7, etc.) are at best baroque and don't include the details which matter to security. I wish this didn't have to be a company -- it really could be something funded by NIH or a consortium of device vendors or medical institutions -- but it probably has to be in order to be effective. There's a need for an open standard for medical device security over top of all this, but rather than just publishing a standard, it would be easier to provide working end to end network from device to information system.