The idea of setting up an open hardware lab for these devices, and some kind of bake-off, is awesome.<p>Also, I wish someone could do a medical device network security system -- it really isn&#x27;t the core competency of any of the hardware vendors, and yet is something you can&#x27;t get wrong.  The public protocols (DICOM, HL7, etc.) are at best baroque and don&#x27;t include the details which matter to security.  I wish this didn&#x27;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&#x27;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.