SECURITY DEVICES FOR MEDICAL DISPOSABLES

There has been a notable increase in the take up of security device IC’s for medical disposals from manufacturers such as Maxim Integrated. To ensure patient safety, health care workers must process, sterilize, and operate many consumable and disposable medical products under carefully controlled conditions. By designing authentication and security features into medical devices, manufacturers and health care centres can help ensure that these limited-use medical products cannot be reused or used too many times, and that counterfeits can be effectively and efficiently detected and removed from the supply chain.

The technology offers both contact and contactless authentication solutions, and typically rely on challenge-response protocols to establish the identity of a device. The secure authenticators offer easy integration into embedded designs, helping to meet the requirements for Unique Device Identification (UDI).