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Lifehacks for healthcare innovation
By
KARACHI:
When thought of as a verb, the suffix ‘jack’ generally suffers from a nefarious connotation. For instance, the term ‘to hijack’ – or to seize any vehicle unlawfully, usually through force or the threat of it – would be what usually comes to mind. Similarly, in the context of technology and science, one may think of hacking, viruses and other cyber attacks when asked to reflect on the term – nothing good in both cases.
So what could the suffix be used for in terms of healthcare and medicine? What of the term ‘medjack’ in particular? In its most used form, the word is a contraction for ‘medical device hijack’, a type of cyber attack that targets weaknesses in the medical devices of a hospital. Over the course of 2015, 2016 and 2017, the word gained sinister prominence after a string of medjacking incidents targeted several hospitals in the fashion described.