Are Hackers Targeting Your Heart?

Today, fool.com health-care analyst Brenton Flynn looks at the scary reports that hackers may have the ability to remotely "hack" into life-saving medical devices such as pacemakers and insulin pumps and change their settings to deadly levels.

While reports like this make for great sensational headlines, they should be far removed from the investor's psyche. Brenton doesn't think these reports materially affect any company's investment thesis. Instead, in the following video he discusses the true risks for medical-device companies and offers up one company that's designing significantly safer devices.

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