NHS: Automation - Question

Part of the debate – in the House of Lords at 2:45 pm on 15 July 2019.

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Photo of Baroness Brinton Baroness Brinton Party Chair, Liberal Democrats 2:45, 15 July 2019

My Lords, while the delivery of automation and AI has much to commend it to the NHS, CyberMDX reported last week that anaesthetic machines can be hacked and controlled from afar, including silencing alarms that would alert anaesthetists to danger. Four months ago in Israel, a cybersecurity firm demonstrated that computer virus malware could add tumours to images of scans. What protections, such as digital signatures and encryption, does the NHS now put in place, following the malware alarm two years ago, to ensure that automation and digital services cannot be attacked by malevolent forces?